- Inker, transactional & marketing email development workflow evolved tl:dr Download | Documentation Any front-end dev will tell you that email template integration is one of the worst part of their job. It is often a task given to interns or to one of those cheap third party companies, & for good reasons. It takes experience/time to build solid email templates, testing in different […]
- How to style select, radio & checkbox form elements only with css Form elements have always been a problem for designers, they are ugly as fuck and never match a website or app style. In an earlier age javascript plugins popped up to solve this problem, at the expense of creating new problems. First let me make a case about not using js in this situation and […]
- Authoring a css book and what is next I neglected quite a bit my blog for some times now .. After 3 years of doing this I feel like I have less and less to say about web development. Well not that it happens to every blogs of course :P. I still have some stuff for you guys, but I feel my time […]
- Creating a CSS3D hovering state with fallback for older browsers HTML5 & CSS3 are a big sugar rush in the front-end community currently, you can see those nice CSS3 buttons popping everywhere around the web. For one project I am working on I wanted to use a nice 3d flip effect like this one. Unfortunately that kind of effect is currently only achievable with Safari […]
- Introduction to the Google WebFont Loader You remember the “old days” when you were cursing at sIFR because it would not give you the font-size you wanted, did text flickering on page load or was just not working at all on IE? Well those days are all gone, the introduction of Cufon sometime ago solved most of the sIFR issues, but […]
- CSS3 transform is coming in a browser near you (even in IE) There has been some cool developments lately on the use of CSS3 transform properties. First we have Dojo has announced that the next version of dojo.fx will support CSS3 transform. You can see the demo here. Another nice project, cssSandpaper is a js animation framework making the use of CSS3 transform easy. Check it out, […]
- Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9? Really? I was pretty surprised to read this week an article on Webmonkey that was saying that Microsoft would certainly double down in IE9 on HTML5 and CSS3. I suggest you read it yourself, but basically it was saying that Microsoft would go on the offensive at the upcoming MIX2010 presenting IE9. Silverlight… I do not […]
- The mobile webkit fixed position problem If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile device are no powerhouse to emulate it with javascript. The problem is simple, yet there is no perfect solution to it. […]
- Zen HTML and CSS coding, and how to install it on Windows with E Text-Editor Zen coding is one of the new cool kid presently, if you haven’t heard of it I would suggest your read this article from smashing magazine or look at this video presentation. Basically it enables you to create HTML from CSS snippet. It might not sound powerful at first, but when you start playing with, […]
- 9 resources to create better HTML forms Forms are a pretty boring piece of the Internet, it’s not fun to create and it’s not fun to interact with. Yet this is mostly our only way to communicate. We should strive to make better forms and make them as painless as possible to complete. Here are some resources worth looking to make better […]