Adobe and Typekit are teaming up to bring some of the world’s most popular, recognizable, and respected fonts to the web. Starting today, you’ll be able to use classics like Adobe Garamond, News Gothic, Myriad, and Minion plus many more on your website — all of them newly optimized and hinted for the screen. I [...]
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css3-mediaqueries-js is a small javascript library that gives you support for CSS3 media queries in older browsers, including IE5+, Firefox 1+ and Safari. Newer versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome already offer native support. If you are unfamiliar with media queries, I suggest reading Ethan Marcotte’s article in a recent issue of A List [...]
Ryan Seddon, also referred to as the CSS Ninja, has created some impressive custom radio and checkbox inputs with pure CSS. The technique, which he posted late last week, is using some nifty selectors and pseudo-madness to detect input state, and swap the original inputs with images from a sprite. The new inputs are actually [...]
After more mocking around with LESS, I’m starting to see the possibilities that this framework presents. Defining constants (I do prefer the term constants over variables) in the beginning gives you an immense flexibility down the road. I’ve been experimenting with this little system that, based on a set of constants, defines the underlying grid [...]
Every time you have repeated the same block of styles again and again and thought, shit, this CSS is getting messier and messier, or returned to an old file to swap a colour value that occurs thirty times throughout the code, what you wished you had, was a a CSS meta framework. There are a [...]