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Be Lazy, Let the Browser Do the Work for You

Imagine you work for a company that has an online product catalog and that your job is to maintain the product images. Now imagine your boss comes to you and says, “here’s a list of a thousand products that need to have ‘40% off’ put on them, and we need it for tomorrow, noon.” So [...]

The C in CSS Stands for Cascade

People have a propensity to see a one-to-one relationship between an element and its look. In other words, they see an element as being styled much like if you were to paint something with a paint brush, a one-off job. At least that’s the way things were circa the early 1990’s with font tags and [...]

Understanding and solving the JavaScript/CSS entanglement phenomenon

Keeping the three layers of separation truly separate.

Semantics, do we really need’em?

A few thoughts on the true impact of semantics.

Are inline styles bad?

There’s been a little talk lately on the topic of whether or not it’s right to use inline styles. Here’s what I think.

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