We often want a component to respond to the dimensions of its parent element rather than the dimensions of the browser window. Currently that’s not possible but ultimately that’s the idea behind Element Queries, and over on Smashing Magazine…
.typewriter h1 {
overflow: hidden; /* Ensures the content is not revealed until the animation */
border-right: .15em solid orange; /* The typwriter cursor */
white-space: nowrap; /* Keeps the content on a single line */
margin: 0 auto; /* 
Working at any large company, the greatest hurdle is always the problem of scale. Be it engineering, design, or how they work together, communication is the key to a successful business. Here are some of the tools that I’ve …
One idea that has lodged itself into my brain recently (largely from this panel discussion) is how a front end developer needs to be aware. In a general sense, the front end developer is positioned in the middle …
Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) is emerging as the preferred graphic format to use on the web today. Are you abandoning the icon font or replacing old pg, gif and png graphics for the well-supported SVG, too? Let’s see how this …
There is a debate on whether HTML classes belong in your content. As in, classes that are strictly related to the presentation of that content. Sometimes the use of these classes is unavoidable. A callout paragraph, a pull quote, a …
Another year! They tick by all-too-quickly these days. It’s time for another commemorative post, as we do. A state of the union. A mile-marker style post where I talk about the year gone by and where things stand ’round …
These are the ways in which I make GIFs. Sometimes for blog posts. Sometimes for tweets. Sometimes for documentation. Sometimes for fun. GIFs can be tremendously useful and communicate better than a still image or even video in some circumstances.…
The only jokes more played out than IE jokes are Dreamweaver jokes. But Dreamweaver just dropped a new Beta that some developers are pretty into. Anselm Hannemann:
…This is a reduced workspace that then deactivates a couple of tools
Today, CSS doesn’t really have any competitors. We might compile another language to get it, or apply it in unusual ways, but ultimately styling happens on the web through CSS.
But before CSS cemented itself, there was RRP, PWP, …
I recently saw a recreation of the Twitter heart animation among the picks on CodePen. If I happen to have a bit of time, I always look through the code of demos that catch my attention to see if there’s …
