A web designoper’s journal
Posted in CSS on May 1st, 2010
While the term “pseudo-class” might not instantly evoke what it refers to, virtually every web developer and web designer has used them. The classic example of pseudo-classes involves styling links based on the state that they’re in (hover, active, etc.). CSS3 introduces over a dozen new CSS pseudo classes to give you more control over [...]
Posted in CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Usability on Mar 1st, 2010
Recently I was checking out some code written many years ago by another developer, and as I was hacking it up to be re-used, I started wondering why he had decided to split up his lines of code so that they were very narrow. Comments, for example, that were a few sentences long ended up [...]
Posted in CSS, Rants, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
Wow, what a week. For a web developer/designer/tech lover there has been a lot of new information in this first month of 2010 (at last we get to use the word “twenty” to describe the new decade — twenty-oh-four never rolled off the tongue). Not only did two of the best browsers get some nice [...]
Posted in CSS on Aug 1st, 2009
By accident the other day I came across the CSS3 target selector. If you’re unfamiliar with what pseudo class selectors are, the W3C defines them thusly: “The pseudo-class concept is introduced to permit selection based on information that lies outside of the document tree or that cannot be expressed using the other simple selectors. A [...]
Posted in CSS on Jul 30th, 2009
Over the years I’ve needed a quick reference for CSS shorthand properties for things like font, border, and background. While there are a few decent cheat sheets out there for this, inevitably I end up having to pull them off my wall and read them because they aren’t clear enough. I finally decided to make [...]