Articles by CSS Tricks from December 2012

I got to hang out with the crew at NBSP for their end of year special! Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Guest on Non-Breaking Space is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Tim Pietrusky shares some ideas on how to use icon fonts as well as debuts his own new free service for icon font hosting.5 Use Cases for Icon Fonts is a post from CSS-Tricks...

There are plenty of different ways to deal with vendor prefixes in CSS as part of your workflow. It depends on if you hand-author CSS or preprocess, and even then there are choices.How To Deal With Ve...

#CROSSOVER time with Jen Simmons from The Web Ahead! Jen, Dave and I talk about The Web Behind, the Instagram debacle, getting better, being critical of yourself, and more. Thanks to Lynda.com and InC...

Greg Smith with a deep look at new/final flexbox (display: flex).Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Dive Into Flexbox is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Big day for me and the CodePen team! Many, many months of development have given birth to CodePen PRO, a set of eight brand new features. Things like Collab Mode, where you can literally write code an...

It's all started with a tweet:Hey @chriscoyier, do you have any source confirming translate() is better than top/right/bottom/left for moving objects please? :)— Hugo Giraudel (@HugoGiraudel) De...

Now 81 sets, by my count.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Updated List of Icon Fonts / Flat Icons is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Super neat walkthough of making good typography choices by Tommi Kaikkonen.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Interactive Guide to Blog Typography is a post from CSS-Tricks...

PPK: Hyphenation works!Eric Meyer on places to avoid it.In my own experience in the CSS-Tricks v10 redesign, at one point I had hyphenation turned on everywhere and got loads of complaints of certain ...

I was asked this past week to consult for a company embarking on a huge new website redesign. I thought I'd write up some thoughts that I would share with anyone in that position.You cannot neglect mo...

Zuck was all like "HTML5 is to slow" and Sencha is all like "Whatever child take a peep at this."Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Fastbook is a post from CSS-Tricks...

A tribunal on the happenings of the the passing approximate fortnight. CSS-Tricks Chronicle IX is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Brad Vincent introduces a new jQuery plugin for helping with responsive data tables with his friend Steve. FooTable: a jQuery Plugin for Responsive Data Tables is a post from CSS-Tricks...

As you know, slides alone pale in comparison to being there to see a talk, but I still feel they are worth sharing. I've just gotten to posting up my last three prepared talks on SpeakerDeck.RSS reade...

The answer is: probably not. But maybe.Do we need box-shadow or border-radius prefixes anymore? is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Ben Terrill shares some "best of" excerpts from a new free e-book he co-authored with quick-hits on making UX better on small screens.Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design is a post fr...

The buttons at BERG Cloud are pretty sweet looking. It's not a hugely big deal, but they way they have created them uses two separate images (not sprited) and two internal spans. In this tutorial we w...

Divya Manian runs through many of the latest stuff coming in CSS. Including several things I'm hearing about for the first time, like specifying unicode range for an @font-face and canvas-as-backgroun...

Another RAPIDFIRE episode where Dave and I just do as many questions as possible. Including: why does Prototype still exist? What is good UX for target="_blank"? and the semantics of <cite>.Di...

I quite like Browserstack, but Sauce has some pretty compelling features as well, like video recording of your testing sessions. Now Sauce has a native Mac app, which means you can do your old browser...

Interesting stuff by Jon Rohan on how simplifying HTML (just a little) and simplifying selectors (just a little) made huge impacts on page performance.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Gi...

In which Timur Gafforov explains how he rebuilt his one-page website for building loading animations in pure CSS.Rebuilding CSSLoad.net is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Ryan Seddon recreates most of the Bootstrap JavaScript plugins without JavaScript. The :checked selector is the workhorse, like we've covered here, but Ryan is the OG of checkbox hacks. These things m...

This week Dave and I were joined by Harry Roberts and where we continue the discussion on IDs, how preprocessors help Harry's framework Inuit.css, visualizing how CSS transforms work, and more. Big th...

Back in early October, I was at ConvergeFL to give a talk. JD Graffam of SimpleFocus and his team were also going to be there giving a workshop on eye tracking. We managed to work it out to do a real ...