CSS3 Tests
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been hacking together some CSS3 tests. I did this to try to figure out what should be included in the upcoming fourth edition of the CSS Pocket Reference (and...
View ArticleEdit Your Head (Styles)
When I saw Ian Lloyd tweet the words “Cunning. Like a fox. Neat little trick!” I knew I had to check it out, because Ian’s a sharp one. So I popped over to the linked CSS-Tricks article, Show and Edit...
View ArticleSame As It Ever Was
I recently became re-acquainted with a ghost, and it looked very, very familiar. In the spring of 1995, just over a year into my first Web gig and still just over a year away from first encountering...
View ArticleInconsistent Transitions
Here’s an interesting little test case for transitions. Obviously you’ll need to visit it in a browser that supports CSS transitions, and additionally also CSS 2D transforms. (I’m not aware of a...
View ArticleCSS Pocket Reference: The Cutting Room
I just shipped off the last of my drafts for CSS Pocket Reference, 4th Edition to my editor. In the process of writing the entries, I set up an ad-hoc test suite and made determinations about what to...
View ArticleSeeing the matrix()
Over the weekend, Aaron Gustafson and I created a tool for anyone who wants to resolve a series of CSS transforms into a matrix() value representing the same end state. Behold: The Matrix Resolutions....
View ArticleMy Own Private HTML5 Survey
Yesterday, Brandy Fortune asked me on Twitter if there are “any major sites written in HTML 5 now“. I decided to throw the question to my Twitter gang, and was of course immediately deluged in...
View ArticleLetter Sweep
I thought it was unreasonably fun when Tim Bray did his Letter Sweep a while back, so I finally decided to fire up Camino and add my distinctiveness to his own. [A]n Event Apart. Not surprising, I...
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Spinning the Web
Can CSS create art? That’s a question I set out to explore recently, and I like to think that the answer is yes. You can judge for yourself: Spinning the Web, a gallery on Flickr. To be clear, when I...
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Results of The Web Design Survey, 2010
Now available: the results from the A List Apart Survey for People Who Make Web Sites, 2010. This is the fourth industry snapshot we’ve compiled, and the story that’s emerged over that time is...
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Adoption Day
Yesterday morning, in a small office on the second floor of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, Kat and Carolyn and Rebecca and I finalized our adoption of Joshua. There were a...
View ArticleUn-fixing Fixed Elements with CSS Transforms
In the course of experimenting with some new artistic scripts to follow up “Spinning the Web“, I ran across an interesting interaction between positioning and transforms. Put simply: as per the...
View ArticleCSS Modules Throughout History
For very little reason other than I was curious to see what resulted, I’ve compiled a list of various CSS modules’ version histories, and then used CSS to turn it into a set of timelines. It’s kind of...
View ArticleSearching For Mark Pilgrim
[[ MARK IS FINE and his work is not lost. Please see the update and addendum later in the post. — E. ]] Just yesterday, I took a screenshot of the title page of Dive Into HTML5 to include in a...
View ArticleThe Survey, 2011
Back on Tuesday, A List Apart opened the 2011 edition of The Survey for People Who Make Web Sites, the fifth annual effort to learn more about the people who work in the web industry. If you haven’t...
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