CSS Reset and ‘Sensible Defaults’
Web Standards Advocates should really be called Zealots. I am also guilty of punting Web Standards, sometimes with no sound reasoning behind my convictions. This ‘blind faith’ led me to a point where one of my team members reigned me in and showed me the misinterpretation of my ways, and it had all to do with Reset CSS and my lack of ‘Sensible Defaults‘.
Skinput – I touch myself
From IgnoreTheCode:
LESSCSS
2 weeks ago, Jonathan dropped me an IM concerning a nifty little Mac OSX app called LESS. Essentially, LESS.app is a fancy GUI for a Ruby gem called LESSCSS, a CSS parsing and authoring tool designed to speed up CSS development.
I’m not going to go into detail about it’s function, but what I will do is give a review, highlight its pros and cons and maybe even offer some mixins you can use.
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Another SA UX Cape Town meet-up in the bag
I don’t know how we do it, but each event we have for the SA UX Forum in Cape Town just seems to be better than the last.
60 chairs were laid out at the Bandwidth Barn tonight, we had wine sponsored by the CITI and snacks + drinks available. We were expecting less than 60, but in the end 75 UX-keen people showed up. This meant a dash for more space and seating, somehow we just managed to squeeze everyone in. Continue reading →