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01:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 29, 2015
CSS Tricks Using Pinterest Data Attributes and Meta Tags
Pinterest is kind of a big deal. In the blog and e-commerce world, it's quickly edging out Google as the most important search engine. That's the world I come from, so I've had lots of opportunity to ...
03:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 26, 2015
CSS Tricks The Debate Around Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?
This has become quite the hot topic lately. It's been talked about at a number of conferences and meetups I've been at personally lately. I've seen slide decks on it. I know people literally not shipp...
05:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 25, 2015
CSS Tricks Contextual Styling: UI Components, Nesting, and Implementation Detail
What should you do if you need a smaller button style whenever those buttons are placed in the header? Do you make a new class or a new custom button modifier? Harry Roberts tackles this problem in th...
12:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 24, 2015
CSS Tricks Poll Results on the Unsolicited Startup Idea Email
In this last poll we asked: You get an email from someone you've never met (poor communication skills, but a decent idea) and they want to cut you in and give you control over a new web company they w...
08:20 pm GMT - Tue, June 23, 2015
CSS Tricks Viewport sized typography with minimum and maximum sizes
There is no min-font-size or max-font-size, so while setting font-size in viewport units is cool, there's a good chance your font-size might get too small on small screens or too big on large screens....
02:52 pm GMT - Tue, June 23, 2015
CSS Tricks So. Many. States.
"States" as in, contexts or situations in which any given element might be in. Let's take a stroll.Imagine a button. Gosh I love buttons. So useful. We first think of a button in it's default state. I...
02:34 pm GMT - Mon, June 22, 2015
CSS Tricks What is Code Golf?
From the grand archives of "Things Chris was totally confused about for far too long and now half understands so might as well blog it": code golf. I would hear someone say something like "I got it do...
04:17 pm GMT - Sat, June 20, 2015
CSS Tricks CSS conic-gradient() polyfil
I got to watch Lea Verou release this right on stage at CSS Conf like a total baller. There are a surprising number of practical (and fun) use cases for it.Direct Link to Article — PermalinkR...
04:13 pm GMT - Sat, June 20, 2015
CSS Tricks On being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry
Wes Bos:Companies make multi-year investments in technology and will stick to their stack for quite some time. So as much as you think that everyone scraps their current setup for a shiny new framewor...
04:08 pm GMT - Sat, June 20, 2015
CSS Tricks Is HTML complete?
Bruce Lawson's interesting reply to Tim Bray's sentiment that "HTML is done."Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Is HTML complete? is a post from CSS-Tricks...
01:44 pm GMT - Fri, June 19, 2015
CSS Tricks Useful Flexbox Technique: Alignment Shifting Wrapping
I just ran into a situation where I had a title that was split into two sections. The main title, big and bold, left-aligned like any regular title. But then a bit of a subtitle, right-aligned, sittin...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 18, 2015
CSS Tricks Sponsor: Divi 2.4
Divi isn't just a WordPress theme. It's a theme for building your perfect theme. You build pages by adding rows and columns of content types of your choosing. The result is a beautiful, modern, respon...
03:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 17, 2015
CSS Tricks Where Content Management Systems Fit Into the Process
Chris published a post a little while back on where style guides fit into a team's process. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to offer my take on where content management systems fit in.I also wante...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 16, 2015
CSS Tricks Finding and Fixing Slow WordPress Database Queries
Slow SQL queries can crush your WordPress site's performance. Sometimes, slow queries are a result of poorly-formed SQL that never should have been done that way. And sometimes, slow queries were actu...
04:04 pm GMT - Tue, June 16, 2015
CSS Tricks What is Code?
An epic piece by Paul Ford. I'll just pick one fun quote because why not.There are 11 million professional software developers on earth, according to the research firm IDC. (An additional 7 million ar...
03:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 15, 2015
CSS Tricks Importing CSS Breakpoints Into JavaScript
Say you need your JavaScript to do something when a CSS media query breakpoint changes. That's what matchMedia is for, but that isn't as supported as media queries are and requires you to maintain tho...
03:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 15, 2015
CSS Tricks Level 4 CSS Selectors
Louis Lazaris does a peak into the future of selectors (most of these aren't very well supported yet). Some of them I've seen and played with (e.g. :valid), and some were totally new to me (e.g. :focu...
03:28 pm GMT - Fri, June 12, 2015
CSS Tricks Sponsor: OSCON (Open Source Convention)
Five days at OSCON equal several years of on-the-job training--that's what OSCON attendees tell us. Hear from the best minds in technology. Learn insights and strategies for using the latest tools and...
07:04 pm GMT - Wed, June 10, 2015
CSS Tricks The Difference Between Throttling and Debouncing
I got these confused the other day and someone corrected me. So I tossed it on the ol' list of blog post ideas and here we are. Both of them are ways to limit the amount of JavaScript you are executin...
04:14 pm GMT - Tue, June 9, 2015
CSS Tricks Supercharging page load
Bask in 11 minutes of Jake Archibald weirdness charm while learning about what we need to be considering in terms of performance and how are built and respond to requests.Direct Link to Article —...
09:48 pm GMT - Mon, June 8, 2015
CSS Tricks Adders and logic gates in pure CSS
Experiment by Schabse Laks:Silon is an experiment in the true power of CSS selectors. Most people would not expect CSS selectors to be capable of expressing arbitrary boolean logic. However, thanks to...
04:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 8, 2015
CSS Tricks Against CSS in JS
Keith J Grant on the connection between HTML and JavaScript:This coupling is real, and it is unavoidable. We must bind event listeners to elements on the page. We must update elements on the page from...
04:35 pm GMT - Sun, June 7, 2015
CSS Tricks Performance Tools
Weekend roundup time! From the multitude of Grunt and Gulp plugins to web apps that can help us visualize our websites with data, learning all the ins and outs of performance tooling is tough. I thoug...
05:24 pm GMT - Fri, June 5, 2015
CSS Tricks Copy & Paste & The Web
Have you ever tried to copy and paste some text only to find it frustrating, awkward, or even impossible? I bet you have. It's not random. On the web, you have a decent amount of control over it. Let'...
03:47 pm GMT - Fri, June 5, 2015
CSS Tricks Viewport vs Percentage Units
Ire Aderinokun with a reminder that 100vw is sometimes wider than the viewable area (because scrollbars). The same is true for vh units, but it's rare websites have horizontal scrollbars. But the best...
03:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 5, 2015
CSS Tricks Web! What is it good for?
My favorite bit of Jeremy Keith's recent article is the third and fourth sentences:I just can't get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop ...
03:56 pm GMT - Thu, June 4, 2015
CSS Tricks Sponsored: Win Cash in Spiceworks IT Platform App Contest
Build the next breakthrough app on the world's largest IT platform! Spiceworks is putting $65,000 in prizes up for grabs. You could win best app in four categories: inventory, help desk, fan favorite ...
05:24 pm GMT - Tue, June 2, 2015
CSS Tricks 5 Minute Physics
I got to watch David DeSandro give this talk live at Code Genius last month, and thankfully it's online now. In five minutes, he shows how easily physics can be implemented in JavaScript in terms of m...
04:56 pm GMT - Tue, June 2, 2015
CSS Tricks Revisiting :Visited
Joel Califa:An email client without read/unread functionality would be unacceptable, so why are we fine with a site without :visited styling?I don't know if I feel that strongly about it. I think it's...
06:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 1, 2015
CSS Tricks Tools To Notify You When Dependencies Update
Any given website has, approximately, a whole bunch of dependencies. Take CodePen. The site is Ruby on Rails. Both Ruby and Rails are actively developed, versioned dependencies. There are a good 30+ g...