On HTML and CSS best practices 11 December, 2011 Best practices are exactly that; best. Not ‘better’, not ‘good when…’ or ‘best if…’, just best. They’re always the best, no matter what. This is something I learned whilst undertaking the single biggest project of my career so far; the complete (and not-yet-live) rebuild of one of BSkyB’s most trafficked websites. For years I’d been working on medium-sized projects where I strove to use as few classes as possible, my CSS was so elegant and hand-crafted and everything used the cascade. I found my old approach isn’t best practice when working on a big site, therefore it’s not best practice at all… You can scale down the big site mentality to smaller builds, you can’t scale up small site mentality to bigger ones. I recently rebuilt my friend Sam’s design portfolio site. OOCSS is always best practice.DRY is always best practice.Efficiency is always best practice.Maintainability is always best practice.Flexibility is always best practice. Did you enjoy this?
Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch - Smashing Coding Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator HTML / HTML5 / XHTML / WCAG / Section 508 / CSS / Links / Spelling Understanding aside Please note aside has been redefined since this post was written, please read the updated article. HTML 5 offers a new element to mark additional information that can enhance an article but isn’t necessarily key to understanding it. However, in the interpretation of <aside> there lies confusion as to how it can be used, and with that there is demand for the Doctor to step up and clear the air. In this article I will look at what <aside> was created for, including sample uses and how not to use this useful, misunderstood element. First, a look at how the HTML 5 specification defines <aside>: The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content. What can often trip-up someone reading the specification is the use of the word “sidebar”. How strict should this relationship be? Example Uses Incorrect use of <aside> Closing Thoughts
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HTML5 enabling script 7 Jan Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I’ve quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements. Download html5shiv.js and must be inserted in the head element (this is because IE needs to know about the element before it comes to render them – so it can’t sit in the footer of the page, i.e. below the elements in question). I’ve updated this post to link to Alexander Farkas’s version of the shiv – it’s the very latest and my simple one line script. The one I originally released was (I thought) beautifully small, but didn’t support print styles nor dynamic injection of HTML5 elements.
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