Simple Styles for Horizontal Rules
That is, the <hr /> element. With the help of a few contributors, I put together this page of very simple styles for them. You could get a lot fancier with an element like a <div></div> that can hold content, …
Reader Question about Hosting
A reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) wrote in asking me about web hosting. …
Smiley Slider
Requires jQuery and jQuery UI for the actual slider. The face is made from elements made into circles with border-radius. The mouth, indicating happiness level, is another circle just cropped down to size with a parent element with hidden overflow.…
Interview
Kevin Dees interviewed me. We talked about all kinds of front-endy stuff, this site, and other fun stuff. (video) …
Using Fonts for Icons…
…is a good idea, I’m telling you.
I’ve created this page to attempt to convince you. It shows examples and lists six reasons why it’s a good idea and three common arguments against them (some of which I refute).
Don’t …
Sharing
I just added “The Big Three” sharing buttons to articles on this site: Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook. I’ve shared my thoughts on sharing buttons like this in the past. I essentially decided that I didn’t like them for this …
Bubble Point Tooltips with CSS3 & jQuery
I needed some tooltips for a thing. In looking around for a little inspiration, I didn’t have to go further than my dock…
#105: Using SpriteCow
In which I take a real example of somewhere I knew using sprites would be a good idea, create the sprite by hand in Photoshop (my preferred method), and then use SpriteCow to help with the exact position values needed …
Vendor Prefixes, yadda yadda yadda, strong opinions
Henri Sivonen:
I think vendor prefixes are hurting the Web. They are hurting Web authors. They are hurting users of browsers. They are hurting competition in the Web browser space.
I’m tempted to raise my fist in disagreement, but you …
Blue Beanie of Thankfulness
November 30th, 2011 is Blue Beanie Day. It’s a (quite literal) hat tip to Jeffrey Zeldman, his book Designing with Web Standards, and a show of support for web standards.
I regret to say that I’ve never …
Five Questions with Tab Atkins
Tab Atkins (Twitter) is a member of the CSS working group and contributor to several other working groups in the W3C. He works for Google on the Google Chrome Team. Browsers and specs are the bones and blood …