Posted: August 2nd, 2011 Author: Shaun
Imagine for a moment that CSS is a diligent (and somewhat queer) fashion designer. He is always trying to dress his subject matter in all manner of fashion, from the formal to the flashy. Think of CSS as a roving clothing-wielding fashionista.
CSS peppers his daily routine with studying his favourite subject matter: HTML Elements. The Elements are a curious set of creatures to CSS, and nowhere is this curiosity more evident than in CSS’s regular [and published I might add] fashion reports on his subject matter. Reading like the annals of an Ethnographer, CSS describes what it was like when he first encountered The Elements…
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Posted: March 10th, 2010 Author: Shaun
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‘.
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Posted: February 26th, 2010 Author: Shaun
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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