As seen on Google Code’s new and improved source browser.
“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”
I didn’t know it was possible to build such nice closed-source programs.
“The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing.”
Did I ever tell you about the guy that spent the better part of a day making his site’s layout entirely em based …
Are there restrictions on how local content can be modified (e.g. user stylesheets)? Should there be?
A Firefox hack for styling specific sites using user stylesheets.
What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.
Brad Neuberg (Google Gears): “Our historical closeness to the web creates a kind of myopia, where we can’t see how amazing it is. It’s a billion Library of Alexandria’s dropped into our laps.”
“If you can’t control the text width the next best thing you can do to compensate for an overly wide text measure is to increase the leading.” — I never considered that but it makes sense.
Makes the background of hexadecimal color codes the respective color. So, background-color:#f00 will have a red background in the vim editing window. Nifty.
From the comments: “the only things i find [useful] in Web Developer Extension is the shortcut to clear cache… for other things i use Firebug…” — Me too!
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie show off some of Prince’s more advanced CSS and HTML features, including styling page size, generating headers/footers, advanced use of the CSS content attribute, page numbering, cross-references, and table of contents.
Ahh, it turns out Håkon’s Wium Lie (Opera CTO and the guy who first proposed CSS) is on YesLogic’s board, makers of PrinceXML. I'm not sure how I missed that.
Holy crap, this is insane. Just let people run IE6 and IE7 as separate standalone browsers side-by-side with IE8. As James said in my previous post, they can even rebrand it as “Intranet Explorer” :)
“… anybody who’s ever built out a relatively complex design using ems will agree that at some point they wondered if the benefit was really worth the effort.”
This is a good idea. The w3c hosted validators tend to perform on the bad side of horrible. I've run the validator locally but never thought to look for mirrors.
Simple print typesetting using HTML/CSS. Targets the 80% of common print tasks w/ HTML/CSS. I'm going to be looking into mozilla’s cairo PDF output abilities within the next few weeks so it will be interesting to compare.
This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.
“… CSS 3 is a joke. A sad, sick joke being perpetrated by people who clearly don’t build actual web apps…”
“But when I say HTML mail still sucks, I don’t mean it sucks because support for design in e-mail today is like support for standards in web browsers in 1998. I mean it sucks because nobody needs it. It impedes rather than aids communication.”
Yes! I've been doing this for a few months now with the corp. assets and I won’t go back. You can really see the text snap into a vertical rhythm when you hit it.
Another interesting take on multi-select lists that uses checkboxes with labels and colors.
I'm real close to hating multi-select list boxes right now. Using an overflowed UL of checkboxes has some interesting pros (and cons).
Very nice list of CSS techniques.
Handsome Flash based color mixing tool and color theme sharing site.
Holy… This is big. Huge big.
A perfect article.
I'm sure I don’t know.
Big list of resources on CSS based forms.
The best attempt I've seen at splicing multiple API references together. This uses the external documentation but provides indexing and browsing features.
This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I've been wondering about for a while now.
Firefox extension with some promising script debugging/spying features.
CSS specifity chart based on Sith power levels — to good to be true.
I run into these problems on a daily basis…
this site rocks
This is probably the nicest color picker for choosing compliments off of a base color.
Big list of sites that provide CC licensed CSS layouts and tools for generating layouts.
Information on quirks vs. strict mode for HTML/CSS rendering: how to trigger, what DOCTYPEs do what, etc.
Styled for landscape printing…
Some information on using proper q and blockquote elements in HTML and then styling them with CSS to fix all the browser brokeness.
red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.
a thorough look at how to use HTML tables correctly.
Some tips I haven’t seen before for dealing with IE’s broken CSS support. Using conditional comments for ie specific css, setting manual defaults, etc.
A nice breakdown of how float works in CSS, which isn’t always intuitive.
Various CSS layouts.
Floating images and other objects using CSS.
Methods for creating a 2-col layout using CSS.
..that rocks. Quite possible the only javascript treeview I'd ever consider using.
Silly amount of links to CSS resources of all shapes and sizes.
A bunch of nice bullet images best used to style UL tags using CSS.
More ridding of tables..
Looks like the periodic chart of the elements for CSS hacks.
The saga continues.
More hacks for trying to get IE to do the right thing.
“This site documents my attempts at understanding and exploring the possibilities of CSS.”
“So with this tutorial I hope to lay out the concept of the flow, and why understanding it will give you a greater grasp of CSS.”