Font sizing with rem
Determining a unit of measurement to size our text can be a topic of heated debate, even in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are still various pros and cons that make the various techniques less desirable. It's just a matter of which less-desirable is most desirable. There are two main techniques that are extolled:
CSS Stress Testing and Performance Profiling / Andy Edinborough
Now let me explain: I have been losing my sanity over the oddest issue. The project I’m working on right now has a fairly complex stylesheet. Performance for the site is absolutely critical. I’ve done my best to squeeze and optimize every line I can. In all browsers, it runs like a champion.
The internet is our social network.
What if social networks were more like email? What if they were all inter-connected, and you could choose which software (and even which provider) to use based purely on what they offered you? Now they are! Friendica is bringing them all together. All of these can be included in your Friendica "social stream" where you may interact with them using a familiar conversational interface - and perhaps arrange them into private conversation groups.
CSS-Crush – CSS preprocessor
Edit ‘Vendor prefixing’ on Github Vendor prefixes for properties, functions, @-rules and even full declarations are automatically generated – based on trusted sources – so you can maintain cross-browser support while keeping your source code clean and easy to maintain. In some cases (e.g.
CSS Selectors and Pseudo Selectors and browser support
This page has not been updated for some time and some of the browser versions are obsolete - I'm working on a better format for the page, so check back every now and then :) The following is a range of CSS tests of the most common browsers' support for selectors and pseudo selectors. The tests includes basic stuff from the good old days of CSS1 and funky stuff from the future (CSS3). If you feel like reading more about the selectors and which attributes they support, the W3C is the place to go! If you spot any errors (it happens to us all...) or have any comments, I'm on Twitter as @overflowhidden. Click here to see this page's history.
Needle: Automated tests for your CSS — Needle 0.1a1 documentation
Needle is a tool for testing your CSS with Selenium and nose. It checks that CSS renders correctly by taking screenshots of portions of a website and comparing them against known good screenshots. It also provides tools for testing calculated CSS values and the position of HTML elements. Installation If you haven’t got pip installed:
Heroku Breaks Through with Facebook Cloud Integration
Following hot on the heels of its recent announcement that it would add support for Java to the support already given to apps written in Ruby, Node.js and Clojure, Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku this morning announced a breakthrough partnership with Facebook that effectively allows anyone with a Heroku account to become an adept, cloud-based Facebook app developer. To give SitePoint readers a head start, we’ve obtained permission to publish the following tutorial, drawing on functionality in Facebook that is only available from today. Let me hand you over to Adam Wiggins of Heroku. Getting Started with Your Facebook App on Heroku
mgeraci/Less-Boilerplate
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ZUI Site Riot
Tutorial info Knowledge needed: CSS, Intermediate JavaScript Requires: text editor, browser that supports CSS3 transforms Project time: 4 hours With CSS3 transforms now supported in most major browsers, we have the delightful opportunity to experiment creating innovative layouts and interfaces. While the paradigm of the vertical website will continue to prosper, there’s a world of possibilities out there to explore. No longer are we shackled in our one-dimensional prisons, bound to the tyranny of vertically-scrolling sites. With the site for BeerCamp at SXSW 2011 (2011.beercamp.com), we at nclud recognized an ideal opportunity to bend some rules and try something new.
