Code Standards | Isobar. Overview This document contains guidelines for web applications built by the Creative Technology (front end engineering) practice of Isobar. It is to be readily available to anyone who wishes to check the iterative progress of our best practices. This document's primary motivation is two- fold: 1) code consistency and 2) best practices. By maintaining consistency in coding styles and conventions, we can ease the burden of legacy code maintenance, and mitigate risk of breakage in the future. By adhering to best practices, we ensure optimized page loading, performance and maintainable code. Pillars of Front-end Development◊ General Practices◊ Indentation◊ For all code languages, we require indentation to be done via soft tabs (using the space character).
Readability vs Compression◊ We prefer readability over file-size savings when it comes to maintaining existing files. The first component of any web page is the tag-based markup language of HTML. HTML5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. 1. 1. 1. The Only HTML5 Resources You Need for Getting Up to Speed. There’s a lot of buzz going around about HTML5. Big companies such as Apple are predicting that it’s the technology that will sign the death warrant of the popular Flash platform that powers a lot of rich internet apps and complex dynamic web components. But what is HTML5, really? How will it change the jobs of web developers and web designers?
Here are 15 web resources to help you on your quest in getting current about the impending technology that’s already being adopted by major web browsers and leveraged in large sites such as Google. 1. For the visually-inclined and casual folks out there, here’s an interesting HTML5 infographic covering useful things such as a comparison of HTML5 and Flash, web browser support/readiness, and a highlight of some of the more popular and powerful modules in HTML5. 2. Software developer and popular blogger, Mark Pilgrim, has written an online book about HTML5. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. This website showcase/gallery features real websites that use HTML5. A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles. Update! Check out CSSresetr for an easy way to test and download the best reset styles for your next design.
Using CSS to style semantically meaningful (X)HTML markup is an important key to modern web design practices. In a perfect world, every browser would interpret and apply all CSS rules in exactly the same way. However, in the imperfect world in which we live, quite the opposite frequently happens to be the case: many CSS styles are displayed differently in virtually every browser.
Many, if not all, major modern browsers (e.g., Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Netscape, et al) implement their own generalized CSS rules, which often conflict with designer-applied styles. Other browsers fail to implement properly various CSS rules, making a mess of pages that happen to display perfectly in other browsers. Needless to say, the unpredictable manner in which browsers implement CSS requires us to seek realistic browser equalization strategies. Minimalistic Reset — Version 1. A Detailed Look at the Z-Index CSS Property. Most CSS properties that a web developer deals with regularly are instantaneous in their application to elements on the page. For example, when you add the background-color or font-size property to an element on your page, in most cases you will see the results immediately upon page refresh. But other CSS properties are not quite as “plug and play” as we would like. The z-index property is one example of the latter.
I would venture to guess that z-index is probably the CSS property that is more speedily abandoned than any other. Very often — when I previously didn’t understand z-index — I would try to apply it to an element, hoping that the element would automatically “jump” to the top in the page’s stacking order. What Exactly Does It Do? Basically, the z-index property sets the stack order of an element. The natural stacking order of a web page’s elements is decided by the order in which the elements appear in the page’s markup. Used When Elements Overlap One Another Summary. Web Browser CSS Support. This document is a section of the web browser standards support document. It includes detailed information about CSS support in major web browsers. About Up CSS is the primary language for adding presentation elements to a webpage.
These presentation elements include colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layout. View this page without CSS CSS 2.1 features CSS 2.1 Units The following are units that are used in CSS properties. CSS 2.1 Importance Importance gives dominance to CSS rules that would normally be overridden by rules of greater specificity or latter appearance.
CSS 2.1 At-rules At-rules provide special operations and selection mechanisms for the CSS document. CSS 2.1 Basic selectors Selectors specify where CSS rules are applied on the document. CSS 2.1 Pseudo-classes Pseudo-classes select elements in certain special states. CSS 2.1 Pseudo-elements Pseudo-elements are styled portions of the displayed page that were created by one of the following selectors. CSS 2.1 Basic properties CSS 2.1 Conformance.