Archive for June, 2011

One Page Apps I Actually Use

One Page Apps I Actually Use

There is a zillion one-page apps focused on making some little aspect of front end development easier. I think they are great. They exemplify the wonderful culture of sharing and ingenuity that our industry is known for. ...

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Techniques for Context Specific Images

Techniques for Context Specific Images

One of the shortfalls of using CSS media queries as the only ingredient of a mobile solution is that the same content gets served to both desktop browsers and mobile devices (which theoretically are slower and have less network...

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Learning Canvas: Making a Snake Game

Learning Canvas: Making a Snake Game

Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Nick Morgan aka Skilldrick . I don't know much about canvas, so it's a pleasure to be able to share an article about a current web technology that...

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Sprite Cow

Sprite Cow

Making a really good CSS sprite image usually isn't trivial work. ...

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WebKit CSS Reflections

WebKit CSS Reflections

Tons of examples and information from Joshua Johnson. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Advertise here with BSA WebKit CSS Reflections is a post from CSS-Tricks ...

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Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window

Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window

When I tweeted this and then followed up with this , I got comments like this . That comment has a perfectly valid point. We often talk about screen resolution, which isn't the relevant statistic when thinking about what...

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Dropp

Dropp

My buddies at Sense Labs just released a really cool iPhone app called Dropp. Allows you to leave location-based messages anywhere on Earth that people receive when they visit that location. Leave them privately for your friends, or publicly...

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Useful :nth-child Recipes

Useful :nth-child Recipes

I get a little giddy when I come across perfect uses for :nth-child or :nth-of-type ( read about the difference ). The better you understand them, the more css nerdgasms you get to have! In these simple "recipes" (really:...

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CSS Lint

CSS Lint

New tool by Nicholas Zakas and Nicole Sullivan to analyze your CSS and tell you that you are doing a bad job. It's an amazing tool to help you understand how to write better CSS. ...

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A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do

A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do

It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements :before and :after . For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do....

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