SASS vs. LESS Read on! →

May 16 2012
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“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 turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one language is best. Let’s do this thing.

Really short answer: SASS

Slightly longer answer: SASS is better on a whole bunch of different fronts, but if you are …

Which responsive images solution should you use? Read on! →

May 11 2012
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There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing with responsive images lately. That is, solutions to help us serve the right image for the occasion (e.g. size of screen and bandwidth available). They all do things a bit differently. To keep track, Christopher Schmitt and I have created this spreadsheet of techniques.

The spreadsheet has the data, but let’s digest it through thinking about it through the lens of practical questions.…

Opt-in Typography Read on! →

May 7 2012
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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 was that instead of setting global styles for typographic elements like p, ul, ol, h1, h2, etc that you would instead apply those styles as a class, perhaps .text. …

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#111: Get Yourself Preprocessing in Just a Few Minutes

There is nothing to be afraid about in this brave new world of preprocessing. Native apps make it so easy that it should be a vital part of any modern workflow. In this video we have a simple project in which we use Jade and Sass on. We use CodeKit to watch the project, which not only makes the preprocessing trivially easy, but helps in more ways like refreshing the browser, injecting styles, and optimizing images.

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