Posts with tag ”css”
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CSS Zen Garden reaches 10
Ten years ago, back when Internet Explorer was still actively trying to ruin everybody’s day, Dave Shea launched CSS Zen Garden. The idea was beautifully simple: take exactly the same HTML and visualize it, again and again, using nothing but CSS.
On vendor prefixes
There’s been a lot of noise lately about vendor prefixes. The sort of noise normally produced when web developers discover that something they thought was merely annoying may in fact be fundamentally broken.
The adaptation of responsive design
Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed web topic of last year. And like most things that become fashionable in our industry, it went remarkably quickly from interesting new idea to essential ingredient that apparently everyone had been doing all along.
Media queries and JavaScript
Mobile development and responsive design are everywhere these days. You can barely attend a web conference without someone mentioning them before the first coffee break.
Report from @media conference in London
The @media conference, officially renamed Web Directions, used to be one of the great pilgrimages for web developers. Once a year the tribe gathered in London, swapping arguments and war stories while the generals of the web standards movement confirmed their positions in the ongoing crusade.
Embracing HTML5 and CSS3
The web has never been particularly good at sitting still. Technologies arrive with great fanfare, developers swear eternal allegiance to them, and a few years later we quietly remove the stickers from our laptops and pretend the whole thing never happened.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
ASP.NET comes with a generous collection of pre-built controls designed to make web development faster and easier. And they do. Unfortunately, some of them also produce markup with all the grace and subtlety of a drunken rhinoceros rearranging your living room.
Internet Explorer 7 has arrived
Internet Explorer 7 has finally arrived. After years of watching Firefox, Safari and assorted other browsers discover exciting modern concepts like standards, Microsoft has released the final version of IE7.
Using CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites were first introduced in 2004 by Dave Shea in the article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. The word “sprite” derives from the old 8-bit days where bitmaps were moved around the screen in games.
The road to web standards
Think of web standards as an attempt to make the web behave itself. They are a collection of technologies and recommendations designed to increase the chances that a web site will actually work.