One of my coding heros, Christian Heilmann, recently wrote a new article on Smashing Magazine. The article is a pretty good tutorial for event-driven JavaScript. However, in true-to-myself fashion, I have completely missed the point of that article and noticed one minor thing that Chris did that I think is incredibly cool. Check out his […]
Tag Archives: CSS
A quick review of SMACSS
If you haven’t heard of this yet, SMACSS stands for Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS. There have been a lot of people saying a great many positive things about it and I’d just like to add my voice to that crowd with this short review of the book. The printed version of the book […]
Using JavaScript to detect CSS Support
Have you ever had a client that explicitly asked for rounded corners and drop shadows on their design? It’s a royal pain in the … well, it’s a royal pain. Every modern piece of CSS you want to use: box-shadow, box-radius, :nth-child(even), all blown to hell because you know your client will be checking in […]
Fixing CSS with jQuery
One of my coding heros, Lea Verou, came up with a fascinating little script at the beginning of the week: detect CSS selector support using JavaScript. At the time, her script didn’t work in IE. Then I got my hands on it and sorted that little problem. Now that the script works in a wide […]