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Awesome Overlays with CSS3's Border-Image Property - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com
The trick with these overlays is the gradient border, going form a lighter to darker orange as you go from top to bottom. To create that effect we used to the border-image property, which is a tricky little addition to CSS. How to use border-image
Lately there has been a rise in the usage of CSS preprocessors such as LESS and SASS , which makes sense given the simultaneous increase of CSS3 usage. I’ve frequently argued with fellow front-end web developers about whether they should be used or not and I decided to finally put my thoughts in writing. To start, I can fully understand the advantage of using such preprocessors over vanilla CSS3. I hate listing all the vendor prefixes, and not being able to use variables, mixins or nesting just like the next web developer. All this syntactic sugar can simplify your workflow by a great deal and make writing CSS3 incredibly fun.
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Same goes for Mobile Safari, in the iOS Simulator: $ CA_COLOR_OPAQUE=1 /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhone\ Simulator Try surfing over to HTML5 Mobile Pro , and see the Core Animation layers in all their red-tinted glory. You can mess around even more with the various Core Animation debugging flags .
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The Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks - Smashing Magazine
The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all too easy if there was only one Web font format out there. Instead, there’s quite a variety, as you will get to know in this article. This quick introduction to @font-face will lead you towards a guide through the @font-face kit generator.
Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
Sass makes CSS fun again . Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules , variables , mixins , selector inheritance , and more . It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
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Sass is an extension of CSS3 which adds nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. Sass generates well formatted CSS and makes your stylesheets easier to organize and maintain.
border-radius() -webkit-border-radius arguments -moz-border-radius arguments border-radius arguments body font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif a.button border-radius(5px) How about transparent mixins? border-radius() -webkit-border-radius arguments -moz-border-radius arguments border-radius arguments body font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif a.button border-radius 5px If you want an expressive css language for nodejs with these features or the features listed below, head over to GitHub for more information.
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Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
Stop. Ok, I feel your frustration. You're a web developer and you're ready to tear your hair out because you have to support Internet Explorer 6, but, to put it tactfully, IE6 doesn't support you. You've spent hours on it, but you just can't seem to get your layout right. I can empathize. I can also help.
The Web Standards Project’s ( WaSP ) Browser Upgrade Initiative ( BUI ), has spurred many a designer to move towards more standards compliant web design, using CSS rather than tables for layout to save user bandwidth while enhancing underlying semantics, accessibility, and reach. “Tables are dead...” Several designers have taken Jeffrey Zeldman’s lead in posting tutorials that have helped us get over the initial hump of table-less design. The first efforts have focused on creating two or more columns using CSS positioning instead of tables, thus allowing for a (complete) separation of structure from presentation.
A List Apart: Articles: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Blueprint is a CSS framework , which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating
Boilerplate: noun standardized pieces of text for use as clauses in contracts or as part of a computer program. As one of the original authors of Blueprint CSS I've decided to re-factor my ideas into a stripped down framework which provides the bare essentials to begin any project. This framework will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions. You're the designer and your craft is important.