“Web Development” Archive
CSS Validation Will Soon Be More Realistic
A brief update on making use of vendor-specific CSS extensions warnings, not errors: the development version of the CSS validator contains an update that doesn’t penalize for use of such extensions …
Testing Tricks: CSS Bookmarklets
On complex development environments and CSS bookmarklets as a testing complement. Complement as in you’ve done everything you can but want to err on the safe side.
One Photo: Reset Style Sheets
It never gets boring.
The Secret of Web Development
Interlude.
CSS: How to Host Right-to-Left Styling
For international projects, don’t use separate style sheets for right-to-left (RTL) styling: use natural (@dir) or artificial (@id, @class) hooks instead. The only exception are unbearable performance issues due to hundreds of RTL rules …
On Solutions
Solutions require problems. If you don’t have a problem, you don’t need a solution. This is exactly why you should, whenever someone proposes a solution—which includes design and technical changes—ask what problem that solution solves …
CSS Validation and Vendor Extensions: Throw Warnings, Not Errors
If you understand valid code as a quality baseline, you will validate your code. If you validate style sheets, you will have come across errors like “Property ‘-moz-border-radius doesn’t exist’” …
Real Web Developers Don’t Need Debugging Tools
Bottom line: try to limit your use of web dev debugging tools—like Firebug or Chrome’s Developer Tools—in order to grow your skills. In theory, debugging tools make the developer life easier …
Celebrating CSS Naked Day 2010
April 9 is CSS Naked Day. This year too. Mr. Diaz didn’t seem to announce it this time though.
px Is Dead, Long Live px
It’s over. There is no ban on px anymore. The only reason why we as web developers had to adjust coding practices were user agents that failed to meet user agent accessibility guidelines …
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