Posts tagged with css
The grid layout for dashboard.spatie.be was conceived with 3 simple ideas in mind: The layout has to be lightweight on the client side: no JavaScript calculations or full-blown grid library should be used. The HTML structure in the templates has to be clean, without extra markup for rows and…
A few weeks ago the Frontend United Conference was held in Ghent, Belgium. The entire development team at Spatie attended the conference. Though it certainly was fun to go to a conference with the entire team we were left a bit underwhelmed. Some of the talks were very short and some speakers seemed a bit unprepared.
The organisers have begun posting video's of all sessions to YouTube. In my opinion the following three talks rose above the rest.
1: Harry Roberts gave a talk were he demonstrated that programming best practices apply to writing CSS as well.
2: Christian Heillman talked about web obesity and gave a few tips on how to optimize the size of images.
3: Mathias Bynens showed how unicode support in JavaScript is broken and what common pitfalls are when working with special characters. Rather than just complaining about it, he offered some kick ass self-made solutions.
(the video for this session hasn't been posted yet, this is a video of the same talk at another conference)
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Broken images are ugly. But they don’t always have to be. We can use CSS to apply styles to thehttp://bitsofco.de/styling-broken-images/element to provide a better experience than the default.
This survey downloaded CSS files from over 8,000 domains and aggregated some data about how CSS is being used and written. I think this can be useful to drive conversations forward about how to organize, think about, and manage larger CSS projects, as well as to look at how the web is evolving.http://reports.quickleft.com/css
Patrick Dubroy explains how you can track down client-side performance problems using the Chrome Dev Tools.
http://vimeo.com/77322983
Fontastic is a service for creating custom font icons.
They offer hosting of the icons as well so you can manage them in one place.