Category Archives: CSS
OOCSS + SASS = Fewer Classes On Your Elements
update 3/29/2009 8:23 AM: Turns out Chris Eppstein is way ahead of me. Check out Compass. It’s a project that delivers your favorite CSS frameworks as SASS mix-ins. Oh and also it integrated with your favorite Ruby web development framework. Stubbornella … Continue reading
A Curmudgeon We All Can Love
Douglas Crockford, purveyor of the JSONRequest spec, is cranky in a polite sort of way. He also happens to be right! Check out the video of his recent talk on The State of AJAX. Crockford takes us through a brief … Continue reading
ID Proliferation Eradication Technique #1: Leverage page.select with page.insert
update 3/29/2009 8:34 AM: In November, 2007 Brad Wilson pointed out an even cleaner fix. Rather than relying on page.select you can just use page.literal to inject (literal) JavaScript code right where you want it. So recasting my example using … Continue reading
Safari 3 Beta Nav List Eschews Anchors in Favor of CSS cursor Property and Click Events
The Safari 3 Public Beta page has a nice little navigation list in the middle: 12 reasons you’ll love Safari. It’s kind of “semantic” markup since it uses an ordered list to enumerate the choices (as opposed to e.g. a … Continue reading
Heinous Corner-Rounding of the Day Award (HCROD) #1: Powells Books (div per image)
My sister recently sent me an (online) gift certificate to Powells books. I just love those stores but had never been to the web site. It turns out that the site, like the stores, is exceptionally cool. You can browse … Continue reading
Tableful Grace
I love reading about table-less layout with CSS. My experience though has been that it never really works for forms. I always end up resorting to tables to lay out my labels, controls and instructions. Well brother, Dan Benjamin and … Continue reading
