Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

SASS vs. LESS

SASS vs. LESS

"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely...

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Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides...

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ShopTalk Episode 18

ShopTalk Episode 18

With ol' Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks to Mijingo for sponsoring this episode. ...

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Opt-in Typography

Opt-in Typography

I recently heard Chris Eppstein give a talk ( slides ) about creating better stylesheets and using SASS to do it. There were a couple of surprising bits in there, one of which was about "opt-in typography." The idea...

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ShopTalk Show #17

ShopTalk Show #17

Another RAPIDFIRE show where Dave and I answer as many lister questions as we possibly can. Direct Link to Article — Permalink ShopTalk Show #17 is a post from CSS-Tricks ...

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Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic

Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic

Most address fields on web forms ask for city, state, and zip code (or city and post code, outside of the US). But as us nerds often lament, city and state are redundant with zip code. Or at least...

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Viewport Sized Typography

Viewport Sized Typography

CSS3 has some new values for sizing things relative to the current viewport size: vw , vh , and vmin . ...

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ShopTalk Episode 16

ShopTalk Episode 16

Dave and I were joined by Ian Stewart, a Theme Wrangler at Automattic for WordPress.com (he's probably thinking about WordPress themes right this very minute). We talked about WordPress multisite, training clients in WordPress, database syncing, team productivity, and...

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Conditional Content via CSS Media Queries

Conditional Content via CSS Media Queries

Jeremy Keith has a great article on his journey to allowing JavaScript to load in content based on the currently active media query. This allows you to keep media queries only in the CSS (DRY!). The article was sans-demo,...

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Transitions Only After Page Load

Transitions Only After Page Load

I've you've ever used CSS transitions on structural elements on your page, you may have noticed a case where you see that transition happen when the page loads and is laying itself out. Quick video of the issue I...

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