Webtype - Better fonts for better websites.
Submitted 2 years and 273 days ago (more from webtype.com)Webtype provides high-end fonts for online typography. We offer web designers the resources they need to bring professional branding and style to their websites. With Webtype, consistent typographic fidelity will finally be available with a new palette of professional fonts tailored specifically for the web.
CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold
Submitted 2 years and 275 days ago (more from cloudfour.com)Unfortunately, CSS media query is fool’s gold for mobile devices. It hides tough problems and gives developers a false promise of a simple solution for designing to multiple screens. I’m going to point out several technical flaws with media queries. Nearly all of them rely on my belief that speed matters more on mobile devices. When designing for mobile, performance is a key consideration.
HTML5 Reset - A simple set of best practices to get your HTML5 project going
Submitted 2 years and 276 days ago (more from html5reset.org)We usually start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS templates. Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it's time for an update, and we thought we'd put it out there for everyone to use.
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome
Submitted 2 years and 283 days ago (more from html5boilerplate.com)After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and gzip.
18 Handy Alternatives to Lipsum.Com for Dummy Content
Submitted 2 years and 287 days ago (more from 1stwebdesigner.com)Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet… most designers probably have these few words embedded in their heads from seeing them over and over. Don’t get me wrong, Lipsum is a great resource for getting chunks of the text and learning more, but there are other websites out there that can do an even better job as well.
Things You Might Not Know About Conditional Comments
Submitted 2 years and 290 days ago (more from impressivewebs.com)Conditional comments have some unique possibilities and quirks that maybe you haven’t considered before, or have simply forgotten. Here is an overview of some things you may not know about conditional comments. Nice tip to give the body tag a different class name depending on the version of IE being used.
Intro to the Google WebFont Loader and how to avoid @font-face text flickering
Submitted 2 years and 295 days ago (more from position-absolute.com)@font-face suffers of the same illness that its predecessors, until the font file is loaded it will display your text with the fallback font family. I will be showing how you can use the google font loader to avoid text flickering and have a good fallback font in case the font file is not loading. You get the best of all world, but it comes with a price of a light javascript hack.
Running your web applications offline with HTML5 AppCache
Submitted 2 years and 295 days ago (more from dev.opera.com)With the introduction of the W3C HTML5 application cache feature, it is possible to make your web applications run offline as well as online. This is where HTML5's new offline storage comes in. It defines a way to store files in a cache, so that when the user is offline, the browser still has access to the necessary files. These can be HTML, CSS or JavaScript files, or any other assets.
Unicorn - W3C's Unified Validator
Submitted 2 years and 297 days ago (more from validator.w3.org)A one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator, mobileOk checker, and Feed validator, which remain available as individual services as well.
CSS Voodoo - The dark art of CSS Hacks
Submitted 2 years and 301 days ago (more from blog.ginader.de)Since I joined Yahoo! I stopped using Conditional Comments for Performance Reasons (less HTTP Requests). So I needed to get familiar again with the common Hacks for Internet Explorer I had completely forgotten about. Over time I hardly ever ran into situations when other Browsers misbehaved - but it did happen. Here's the current State of my CSS Hack Collection.