Archive for December, 2011

WebKit Selector Performance Changes

WebKit Selector Performance Changes

Nicole Sullivan covers some of Antti Koivisto's work on making CSS selectors faster in WebKit. Clever stuff, which Nicole helps make understandable for all of us. Mostly stuff that helps the browser "rule out" selectors more quickly...

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Responsive Multi Column Data Tables

Responsive Multi Column Data Tables

Maggie Costello Wachs from Filament Group shares the best approach to responsive data tables I've seen yet. Remember the problem: exploring a large data table on small screen devices means a bunch of horizontal and vertical scrolling, which sucks...

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Public Service Announcement: Watch Your @font-face font-weight

Public Service Announcement: Watch Your @font-face font-weight

Let's say you're browsing Google Web Fonts for a free font to use on your website. You find one you like... ...

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Thank You (2011 Edition)

Thank You (2011 Edition)

Hey folks! It's that time of year again where I write a post to say thanks to every person visiting this site. ...

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Custom Events are Pretty Cool

Custom Events are Pretty Cool

Let's say you are working on a web application in jQuery and you are tasked with writing an accordion suited to the needs of your web app. You decide to make it into a plugin. That way anywhere in...

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Stuff you can do with the “Checkbox Hack”

Stuff you can do with the “Checkbox Hack”

The "Checkbox Hack" is where you use a connected label and checkbox input and usually some other element you are trying to control, like this: <label for="toggle-1">Do Something</label> <input type="checkbox" id="toggle-1"> <div>Control me</div> Then with CSS, you hide the...

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Adobe-like Arrow Headers

Adobe-like Arrow Headers

Adobe has some pretty cool header bars for modules on their site: The header bar is divided into left and right sections. The left being an explanatory title and the right being a related link. But let's get super...

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Multiple Attribute Values

Multiple Attribute Values

Elements can have multiple class names. ...

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Dabblet

Dabblet

The best part about Lea Verou's new in-browser HTML/CSS demo tool? It saves your demos to your GitHub account as gists. ...

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Open a Window with Full Size Unscaled Image

Open a Window with Full Size Unscaled Image

For the gallery section of this site, I wanted people to have the ability to see the screenshot at it's original size. ...

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