In a time when everyone seems to have a tablet, which makes it possible to consume everything digitally, and the only real paper we use is bathroom tissue, it might seem odd to write about the long-forgotten habit of printing a Web page. Nevertheless, as odd as it might seem to visionaries and tablet manufacturers, we’re still far from the reality of a paperless world. [Links checked February/08/2017]
In fact, tons of paper float out of printers worldwide every day, because not everyone has a tablet yet and a computer isn’t always in reach. Moreover, many of us feel that written text is just better consumed offline. Because I love to cook, sometimes I print recipes at home, or emails and screenshots at work, even though I do so as rarely as possible out of consideration for the environment.
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Designers hold CSS close to their hearts. It’s just code, but it is also what makes our carefully crafted designs come to life. Thoughtful CSS is CSS that respects our designs, that is handcrafted with precision. The common conception among Web designers is that a good style sheet is created by hand, each curly bracket meticulously placed, each vendor prefix typed in manually.
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You’ve probably already heard about responsive design. In this post, the ZURB team present ’Foundation’, a framework to help you build prototypes and production code that’s truly responsive.
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Christian Heilmann brings us a quick introduction to using exponentials and sine waves and to plotting things on a circle. Have a go with the code, and play with the numbers!
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There are pros and cons to the wide range of resources available to us, but this tutorial will not explore them all. Instead, we’ll create our graph using a progressively enhanced sprinkling of CSS3 and jQuery.
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Offering a range of new features that help us break free of the float, the flexbox model is another step forward for the layout of modern Web pages and applications. By experimenting with these new techniques now, you can actively contribute to its development.
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In this article, we will take our first steps with CSS animation and consider the main guidelines for creating animation with CSS. We’ll be working through an example, building up the animation using the principles of traditional animation. Finally, we’ll see some real-world usages.
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LESS and Sass share a lot of basics. oth of them are fantastic tools for designers who code, and they can also help developers work more efficiently and quickly. In this post, Jeremy Hixon presents the main difference between them.
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You might think that reporting the bug would be pointless. Read this post to know how to identify a bug, learn why you should bother reporting bugs, and become part of making the Web a better place.
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When it comes to writing CSS, everyone has their own favorite format. In this article, Harry Roberts explores how we can write CSS so that others can understand and use it with ease.
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