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CSS abstraction Series: Introduction to xCSS
I recently did an introduction to Less CSS following my read of why abstraction matters, in this article I was demonstrating how Less could be useful to your front-end development team, but the big disadvantage was that you had to install ruby on your development computers in order to use it. Installing ruby in some […]
Cedric Dugas
October 21, 2009
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Apple patents CSS transform and animation
In a frightening move, Apple decided to patent their CSS transform and animation properties. Unfortunately this was not part of the CSS3 specifications and they have all the rights to do so. Now we will have to wait and see what are Apple intentions with this patent. Other browser vendors could decided to not implement […]
Cedric Dugas
October 20, 2009
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Introduction to Less CSS abstraction on Windows
Following my last post about CSS abstraction with PHP, Chris Eppstein proposed I have a look at Less CSS. Truth be told I had already looked into it. But the big ruby icon turned me down, I do not use Ruby on rail. Turns out you do not need to install Ruby on your server. […]
Cedric Dugas
October 5, 2009
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Best front-end workflow within a production team
Optimizing front-end teams’ workflow is hard, there is always something that comes in the way, but it is important to at least try to optimize the front-end work. It could save your team considerable time over a project. Front-enders could work more efficiently together and within the production team. Let’s take a look at front-enders’ […]
Cedric Dugas
September 18, 2009
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posAbsolute CSS Framework, website starter kit
Web development companies have a bad habit of doing inconsistent websites depending on which developer coded the website. It is one of the reason we have so much back-end framework. However front-end teams are a bit more in the dark. While there is basic guidelines for CSS and JS, there is generally less management by […]
Cedric Dugas
September 8, 2009
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How to: Get CSS3 box-shadow and border-radius accepted as a viable option at your workplace
This is a small pledge for implementing CSS3 on non-critical design elements, I thought it might help other front-end developer to convince their boss, fell free to use it! What you need to understand, from my point of view, is that CSS3 can help save considerable time to your web development team, this article talks […]
Cedric Dugas
July 27, 2009
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CSS3 @font-face is not as ready as you would think
@font-face is one of the new CSS3 feature that has been implemented in every major browser beside IE, this is also the kind of stuff that can degrade really well in non compliant browsers. Let’s face it, sIFR is really painful to implement as with most text replacement techniques. @font-face could solve this problem, web […]
Cedric Dugas
July 20, 2009
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Microsoft is on fire this week, a non-biased browsers chart
I would like to start with a quote from Microsoft on web standards browsers comparison: It’s a tie. Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser Now that’s just a start, Microsoft has put online a nice chart comparison proving that Microsoft has a […]
Cedric Dugas
June 18, 2009
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1 line CSS Grid Framework is possible
Something very interesting has come up this week. Vladimir Carrer has created a very simple CSS framework that can even work in IE 5.5. .dp50 {width:50%; float:left; display: inline; *margin-right:-1px; } This is of course very limited as you can only use 1,2,4,8,16 columns system. This is a technical demo and should not really be […]
Cedric Dugas
June 4, 2009
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Does making an IE6 stylesheet makes you lazy?
I always wondered what was more time efficient between using an IE6 stylesheet for every bug I see, or try to track down the problem in my website. Most common bugs can be solved without using css tricks. I can pretty much say that half my ie6 css bugs are in fact small errors in […]
Cedric Dugas
April 28, 2009