CSS
Details of button padding in various browsers
After building a slide deck with Ben, you learn the art of a perfectionist. He would love Chris Hester's posting on button padding that shows you how your buttons look on various browsers and operatin ....... read more
Tue,
06 May 2008
line-height: painful
Eric Meyer has felt a lot of pain due to line-height, which means us mere mortals are totally up the creak. He posted about how line-height is abnormal and goes into detail on his learning curve, and ....... read more
Wed,
07 May 2008
We are JavaScript library authors. Hear us roar!
John Resig "doesn't think there's a single JavaScript developer who isn't excited about the new Selectors API specification (and the upcoming implementations)." He was asked to provide feedback on the ....... read more
Fri,
02 May 2008
Homer in CSS
There is the David. There is the Mona Lisa. And then, the artist has to create the Homer. Román Cortés did just that with his Homer in CSS and Ned Batchelder shows it via animation. Thank god for fun ....... read more
Fri,
02 May 2008
CSS Variables are next?
How long have you wanted to name colors and such in your CSS instead of having to use search and replace (which breaks if you share the same colors ;) ? We have a proposal thanks to Daniel Glazman and ....... read more
Fri,
25 Apr 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Hacking transparent PNG support into IE6 with IE PNG Fix, CSS and jQuery
During his work in redesigning the Pathfinder web site, Brian Dillard came across the infamous IE6 transparent PNGs issue and used two methods to tackle the issues. He decided to do a nice write-up ex ....... read more
Thu,
10 Apr 2008
Progressive Enhancement with CSS support
Via John Resig we just got to learn about a clever technique applied by the Filament group in Boston called Progressive Enhancement with CSS support. The study rightfully claims that object detection ....... read more
Sat,
15 Mar 2008
CSSJanus: simple tool for RTL
Over on the Google Open Source blog I got to post about a new tool by Lindsey Simon that takes your CSS and spits out versions ready for the RTL world (or vice versa if you are a developer elsewhere ....... read more
Tue,
04 Mar 2008
Rounded tabs with Dijit
Nikolai Onken has written a detailed post on rounded tabs and how to get them all nice and happy with Dijit. Although the example is focused on Dijit and tweaking the tab template: PLAIN TEXT HTML:read more
Wed,
27 Feb 2008
CSS Sprite Generator: Open Sourced and Adapted
Ryan Breen has been tinkering with the CSS Sprite Generator that Ed Eliot and Stuart Colville recently open sourced. How did he tweak it? One of the first articles I wrote about CSS sprites covered t ....... read more
Mon,
25 Feb 2008
Slickspeed Adds Dojo
The MooTools folks have added Dojo 1.0.2 to the set of tests on their Slickspeed. It is actually quite cool of them to put up this test and compare other frameworks. I just ran it on Firefox beta 3 on ....... read more
Thu,
21 Feb 2008
Native CSS selectors with querySelector
David Smith of WebKit posted about their native implementation of querySelector and querySelectorAll from the W3C Selectors API. Native CSS selectors in the browsers is going to be a huge boon for us ....... read more
Mon,
11 Feb 2008
OnionML: Server Side JavaScript Layout Engine
Marcello Bastéa-Forte has developed OnionML, a layout template language that uses server side JavaScript with Rhino and E4X on the back end. The high-level goal of the template engine is to be somethi ....... read more
Thu,
14 Feb 2008
Extending dojo.query()
Alex Russell has taken some time to share the path you take when you go the Dojo Way and ?build with, not on?. He posted an example of how to extend dojo.query() which walks through the steps: Step 1: ....... read more
Wed,
13 Feb 2008
Hide an image in html?
Erik Kastner created something a little bizarre at 2am (beer involved?). He built an image hider using the CSS3 ::selection pseudo-element. You mouse over the text and a hidden image reveals itself. T ....... read more
Fri,
08 Feb 2008
New CSS JavaScript Library
Marat Denenberg has continued the trend of CSS frameworks by taking Mootools and creating CSS.js. The library sits on top of CSS itself and gives you: Programmatic CSS Browser Compatibility Custom CS ....... read more
Thu,
29 Nov 2007
Safari CSS Reference
Do you want to have one place that tells you about all of the Safari properties? Now we have it. The reference shows not only the standard properties and how Safari handles them, but also all of the - ....... read more
Wed,
28 Nov 2007
DebugBar 5: New CSS debugging for IE
Jean-Fabrice Rabaute, author of Companion.JS, has put out a new DebugBar as he aims to get IE developer tools on par to Firebug. In this new version, on a selected element in the DOM Tree, the DebugBa ....... read more
Tue,
13 Nov 2007
Webkit CSS Transforms
Webkit now has CSS Transforms:
Boxes can be scaled, rotated, skewed and translated. The current nightly builds support affine transformations. A transform can be specified using the -webkit-transform ....... read more
Mon,
29 Oct 2007
MRI: CSS Selector Inpage Tester
John Allsopp, who authored XRAY, has a new tool for us to play with. MRI is a bookmarklet that fires up a tool allowing you to query items on the page using CSS selectors. As you put in your queries y ....... read more
Tue,
23 Oct 2007