Posts Tagged “css”
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 [...]
When Browser Detection Isn’t a Bad Thing
One of the pillars of the Web Standards movement–reinforced in Zeldman‘s seminal Designing With Web Standards–is the idea that browser detection is a bad thing and should be avoided. As with another idea spawned at around the same time, that “tables are bad”, it isn’t wholely true. There are situations where tables are good and [...]
Understanding and solving the JavaScript/CSS entanglement phenomenon
Keeping the three layers of separation truly separate.