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Writing efficient CSS - Web developer guide

Writing efficient CSS - Web developer guide

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Optimize browser rendering - Make the Web Faster Once resources have been downloaded to the client, the browser still needs to load, interpret, and render HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. By simply formatting your code and pages in ways that exploit the characteristics of current browsers, you can enhance performance on the client side. Use efficient CSS selectors Overview Avoiding inefficient key selectors that match large numbers of elements can speed up page rendering. Details As the browser parses HTML, it constructs an internal document tree representing all the elements to be displayed. According to this system, the fewer rules the engine has to evaluate the better. The following categories of rules are considered to be inefficient: Rules with descendant selectors For example: Rules with the universal selector as the key body * {...}.hide-scrollbars * {...} Rules with a tag selector as the key ul li a {...} Rules with child or adjacent selectors body > * {...}.hide-scrollbars > * {...} ul > li > a {...} Rules with overly qualified selectors

20 Exceptional CSS Boilerplates and Frameworks CSS frameworks have been the foundations of web projects for many years. However, in the age of responsive design, a framework has even more benefits. A well-built CSS framework or boilerplate can streamline the design process, save huge chunks of development time and ensure your website scales properly on all devices. With so many choices available, though, it can be difficult to choose a framework to build on. It's important to consider the following when making a decision: whether you require a grid, and if so, will it be fluid or fixed? This post details 20 CSS boilerplates, frameworks and systems to help you make that decision. 1. Bootstrap is a "sleek, intuitive and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development." 2. Catering for four layouts (default, tablet, mobile and wide mobile), with three sets of typography presets, Less is a responsive CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 1.

Hover.css - A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects All Hover.css effects make use of a single element (with the help of some pseudo-elements where necessary), are self contained so you can easily copy and paste them, and come in CSS, Sass, and LESS flavours. Many effects use CSS3 features such as transitions, transforms and animations. Old browsers that don't support these features may need some extra attention to be certain a fallback hover effect is still in place. Licenses Hover.css is made available under a free personal/open source or paid commercial licenses depending on your requirements. Personal/Open Source For personal/open source use, Hover.css is made available under a MIT license: Use in unlimited personal applications Your application can't be sold Your modifications remain open-source Free updates Read full license Commercial For commercial use, Hover.css is made available under Commercial, Extended Commercial, and OEM Commercial licenses. Commercial License Purchase | Read full license Extended Commercial License

Efficiently Rendering CSS I admittedly don't think about this idea very often... how efficient is the CSS that we write, in terms of how quickly the browser can render it? This is definitely something that browser vendors care about (the faster pages load the happier people are using their products). Mozilla has an article about best practices. Google is also always on a crusade to make the web faster. They also have an article about it. Let's cover some of the big ideas they present, and then discuss the practicalities of it all. Right to Left One of the important things to understand about how browsers read your CSS selectors, is that they read them from right to left. ID's are the most efficient, Universal are the least There are four kinds of key selectors: ID, class, tag, and universal. #main-navigation { } body.home #page-wrap { } .main-navigation { } ul li a.current { } ul li a { } * { } #content [title='home'] #main-nav > li { } Even though that feels weirdly counter-intuitive... Don't tag-qualify David Hyatt:

8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data There are many ways you can present numerical, chartable data by styling elements using CSS. Using CSS to style your data prevents you from relying on static images and increases your content’s accessibility. Below, you’ll read about 8 excellent techniques for styling elements into beautiful, accessible charts and graphs. 1. CSS for Bar Graphs View Demo This tutorial showcases three ways of graphing data. 2. View Demo #1 – View Demo #2 – View Demo #3 Author Wilson Miner discusses the concept of accessible, standards-compliant techniques for data visualization mentioning the benefits, limitations, and alternatives in brief. 3. Eric Meyer shows us another technique for graphing vertical bar graphs using unordered lists similar to the "CSS for Bar Graphs" technique from Apples To Oranges. 4. In this technique, you use pre-made background images to shade in the appropriate data. 5. View Demo This example uses a definition list for mark-up. 6. 7. 8. Related Posts

Le Wireless Display Adapter de Microsoft disponible en France Le Wireless Display Adapter de Microsoft disponible en France Microsoft annonce la disponibilité du Wireless Display Adapter à partir du 12 février 2015 en France. Cet accessoire permet de partager, dupliquer ou d’étendre un écran de smartphone, d’ordinateur portable ou de tablette compatibles Miracast avec une TV HD, un vidéoprojecteur ou un moniteur, le tout sans-fil. Le Wireless Display Adapter ne se limite pas à la diffusion de contenu venant d’applications : il fonctionne comme un câble HDMI ou VGA, mais sans la contrainte des fils, grâce à la technologie Miracast. Une fois l’adaptateur installé sur une télévision, un vidéoprojecteur ou un moniteur, il est possible de projeter tout type de contenus simplement et instantanément. Le Wireless Display Adapter intègre dans son boitier, un port HDMI et un câble d’alimentation USB. Les autres vidéos de périphériques

Why programmers should study the art of programming Chip Camden encourages programmers to cultivate a broad and deep understanding of the trade by accumulating a knowledge of its history and keeping an eye on recent developments. To the average programmer in the trenches, debating the theory of computation is like discussing the chemical properties of saltpeter while in a gunfight: it may all be correct, but it doesn't apply directly to the problem in front of them. Why waste time imagining the outcome of a deathmatch between Haskell Curry and Alan Kay when we've got a deadline to slap a new web UI over our legacy application? Why should we care whether we're using a monad or an exception to return an error state? From many a project manager's point of view, programmers who dabble in computing theory pose an even greater danger than wasting time: they threaten to poison the project with new ways of doing things. The history of programming is dotted by false starts and pendulum swings. The professional programmer should drink deeply.

70+ Awesome Fullscreen Wordpress Theme Collection Using a dedicated fullscreen WordPress theme will undoubtedly catch the attention of your visitors in a new, powerful and exciting way! Like WordPress themes for portfolio websites they are great for showcasing your work as a photographer, creative artist, designer or photojournalist. The use of the entire browser area adds a great dimension to your blog drawing all the attention on showcasing your images or videos in an intense and vivid full size manner. Widget, sidebar and banner areas have been minimized or entirely removed making it a very minimal, clean and attractive way of promoting your business and strengthen your online presence. Common to most of these themes is the use of a fullscreen slideshow that showcases either images, videos or both maximizing the user experience. Responsive web design is so hot right now and theme developers can’t ignore the fact that there are more than 1 billion smartphones in use today and this don’t even include the number of tablets in use.

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