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This article will cover the W3C’s recommended option for supplying style to your mobile documents—CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. I will introduce what is available in the mobile profile and how it differs from CSS 2.1; then, I will discuss progressive enhancement and applying more advanced styles to more capable devices.
Transcription of Dan Cederholm's talk at An Event Apart. Some good ideas in here.
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
- Specifics on CSS Specificity - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.
- django-assets - Google Code code.google.com
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum opera.com
"A complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics." Great, but picked up a couple of things I disagree with already.
- Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks unitinteractive.com
A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.
By not using it? "The goal of this tutorial is to distill the information at the official site for sIFR into a simple step-by-step process of how to implement sIFR on your site."
- The Miseducation of SEO | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
- Google I am hiding my text! | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
Many of the more advanced [CSS] features aren't widely supported by the dominant browsers, but some very useful ones are -- including newer features from CSS3.
Please read this if you do front-end work. Then read t'others in series.
- Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them | Speckyboy - Wordpress and Design speckyboy.com · Archived on
Useful for the list of frameworks.
- John Resig - Progressive CSS Enhancement ejohn.org
Not a fan of this approach but could be handy in certain circumstances
- Mike Davidson - Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace mikeindustries.com
"I’d like to encourage designers to open their mind and consider using some of the other typefaces that are often pre-installed on computers these days." 4 years back and most people still aren't really doing this.
- Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
IE8 will be the last of the major browsers to add support for CSS tables, which will enable designers to use table-based layout techniques without misusing HTML table markup.
How do we create transparent columns that can work in all browsers? What if we could use the opacity property but still have the content opaque?
- Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
"Throughout the duration of this series, we’ll be speaking extensively about markup — XHTML, CSS, and a little scripting. Marking up a website is akin to speaking Spanish. There’s more than one way say something, and there’s certainly more than on
"Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site." More like this, please. Time to start creating effects that look great in good browsers and fall back in IE.
- Silverback app silverbackapp.com
Lovely parallax effect when resizing browser.
- CSS Tools: Reset CSS meyerweb.com
Meyer's reset gets permanent home.
- Sniff browser history for improved user experience niallkennedy.com
Clever, well-meaning but crosses the privacy line.
- Sitepoint - CSS Reference reference.sitepoint.com
- Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » CSS Rounded Corners Revisited dave-woods.co.uk
This tutorial will demonstrate how it can be achieved by using just one circular image and a little CSS knowledge. The HTML is fairly simple and just requires an extra span for each corner of the box.
About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid [..] Your CSS becomes completely unmaintainable.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Resetting Again meyerweb.com
More CSS resetting from Eric Meyer.
- Digital Web Magazine - CSS Not([hacks]) digital-web.com
"The possibilities of using CSS3 selectors as an alternative to hacks when targeting specific browsers." Novel.
I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.
- CSS Unworking Group | Malarkey Rides Again stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Following Opera's action, today I am calling on Bert Bos, chairman of the CSS Working Group, and those higher up within the W3C including Sir Tim Berners Lee, to immediately disband the CSS Working Group in its current form.
- 24 ways: CSS for Accessibility 24ways.org
A few new tips in here.
- 24 ways: Back To The Future of Print 24ways.org
8 tips and 4 main gotchas when creating print stylesheets in our more enlightened era.
- 24 ways: Minification: A Christmas Diet 24ways.org
Some tools to trim the fat and speed up our sites.
What we can do to support IE6 users whilst taking full advantage of transparency for the majority of a site’s visitors.
- Vitamin Features » Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered thinkvitamin.com · Archived on
What you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.
I’m asking publicly, and hoping these folks will show up here to give me their answers: What is it about CSS frameworks that bothers you?
Extension of big red angry text but c'mon... CSS expressions? Evil!
- Quirksmode - CSS - Contents and compatibility quirksmode.org
Dead handy.