I suspect this is what many of us do (based on my own behavior and what I observe of others), but I’m not sure we outright say it or embrace it. Mood Driven Development: Work on what you feel like …
Alex Russell on the current problem with testing experimental web features:
…Prefixes “look” ugly and the thought was that ugliness — combined with an aversion to proprietary gunk by web developers — would cause sites to cease using them once
There is no shortage of apps to help you arrange windows. I find them tremendously useful. Most Windows (the operating system) users I know quite like the built-in abilities it has to position windows, but there isn’t as much of …
The “floating label” is a common design pattern where the label of a form is displayed on top of an input until someone taps it. It’ll then transition out of the way to reveal the placeholder text beneath, but the …
I’m always running across wonderful SVG stuff. Demos, tutorials, tools, art… some of the best timeless resources end up in our SVG compendium. Some I think are best suited to posts like this!
Some of these are pretty new. …
There is a good amount of information on this site about specificity. The seminal one is Specifics on CSS Specificity, which has been updated a few times over the years. When it was originally published in 2008, it presented …
The following is a guest post by Brad Westfall. I ran into Brad at a conference not long ago and we talked about potential guest post ideas. Brad recently ran a conference of his own, CSSDay.io, and as …
The stroke-dasharray property in CSS sets the length of dashes in the stroke of SVG shapes. More specifically, it sets the length of a pattern of alternating dashes and the gaps between them.…
Anselm Hannemann recently made a post about some of the misconceptions that front-end developers might have about web security. Since I had lots of questions about these things, I thought I’d interview Anselm to get his take on the …
A project by the U.S. General Services Administration that outlines how Federal agencies should implement basic web security, going into great detail as to why government websites should always use HTTPS over HTTP:
…HTTP has become central to today’s way
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. Yadda yadda yadda.
But what do you call a small amount of it?…
