Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthoring HTML and CSS will never be as complex as programming. HTML is, after all, a markup language, and CSS is merely a stylesheet language. CSS is simple enough that the first two or three hours of writing it won’t … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
Konami Edit: a jQuery plugin for [Contenteditable]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was getting frustrated on a project with having to test my CSS with different line-lengths of content and whatnot. So I decided to write a little tiny jQuery plugin to help me test out my web pages a bit … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: using :target to create accordions
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table … Continue reading
Using HTML5 LocalStorage to Protect Forms: Part 2, the jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it … Continue reading
Snippets: Class Friendly CSS Triangles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil I get my snippet library up and running in WordPress, I’m storing a lot of my snippets over at GitHub. One of the first things I put up there is a super handy snippet for easy-bake CSS triangles
Stupid CSS3 Tricks: Keeping time without JavaScript
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother stupid CSS3 trick: Take a bucket-full of CSS3 -webkit animations, add in a table or two that you’ve marked up somewhat semantically, hit refresh and voilá, you have a way to keep track of how much time has passed … Continue reading
Stupid CSS3 tricks: An animated pendulum complete with realistic shadow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis goes into my category of stupid CSS3 tricks. I think at some point I was playing with animations and timing, and I thought that the coolest and most useless CSS3 thing I could come up with is a pendulum. … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day with a CSS3 heart
Reading Time: 2 minutesShow a geek you love her with a heart made lovingly with CSS
HTML5 and Geolocation: Finding Yourself (Part One of Many)
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf there’s something in the HTML5 technology suite whose potential is inversely proportionate to its simplicity, it’s geolocation. The API is very simple and the opportunities haven’t begun to get tapped. My boss over at Tahzoo has a few mind-blowing … Continue reading
CSS Tip: An em isn’t an “m”, but an ex is an “x”
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn’t an “m” in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded with “d’uh”. We’ve seen … Continue reading