Designmodo - Web Design and Development Magazine. The best of 2012 for designers. In 2012, we covered a ton of new apps, resources, and more for designers and developers.
In fact, we covered nearly 500 such resources! So rather than yhou having to go back through our archive of posts, we’ve gathered up the best of what was new over the past year in one place! We’re not including everything (after all, some resources are no longer available, sites may have changed hands, apps may no longer be active, etc.), but rather have put together a true “best of” compilation, with more than 100 entries! Enjoy, and let us know in the comments what your favorite new resources were for the year! Cuepoint JS Cuepoint JS is an open source plugin for adding subtitles or cue-points to HTML5 video. Hovercard Hovercard is a free jQuery plugin that lets you display related information when you hover over a link, label, or any other HTML element. Initializr 2 Responsive Template Initializr 2 is now offering an HTML5 responsive design template generator.
AntiMap Kinzaa Revolver.js Tmpltr Scrollorama. Fonts. 15.1 Introduction Setting font properties will be among the most common uses of style sheets.
Unfortunately, there exists no well-defined and universally accepted taxonomy for classifying fonts, and terms that apply to one font family may not be appropriate for others. E.g., 'italic' is commonly used to label slanted text, but slanted text may also be labeled as being Oblique, Slanted, Incline, Cursive or Kursiv. Therefore it is not a simple problem to map typical font selection properties to a specific font. 15.2 Font matching algorithm Because there is no accepted, universal taxonomy of font properties, matching of properties to font faces must be done carefully.
The User Agent makes (or accesses) a database of relevant CSS 2.1 properties of all the fonts of which the UA is aware. (The above algorithm can be optimized to avoid having to revisit the CSS 2.1 properties for each character.) The per-property matching rules from (2) above are as follows: 'font-style' is tried first. Serif icon. CSS Color Module Level 3. Abstract CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.
It uses color-related properties and values to color the text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a document. This specification describes color values and properties for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and values from CSS level 2 and new values. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication.
The (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org (see instructions) is preferred for discussion of this specification. This document was produced by the CSS Working Group (part of the Style Activity). A separate implementation report contains a test suite and shows that each test in the test suite was passed by at least two independent implementations. A complete list of changes to this document is available.
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