August 19 2011
People post a good bit of HTML in the comments of articles on this site. They are trying to demonstrate something, ask for troubleshooting help, show alternate techniques, etc. This is excellent. I want to encourage this as much as possible. Unfortunately people are often confused on how to do it correctly and get frustrated when it comes out wrong.
August 17 2011
Showing additional info (“popup”) when hovering over an element is a pretty easy thing to do. But there is a ton of subtle ways to improve that interaction. This articles goes over a really excellent technique for this covered by Doug Neiner at the Front End Design Conference 2011.
August 16 2011
Generated content means pseudo elements added to the page via the ::before and ::after. The support for applying transitions or animations to these in the current browser landscape is not great. I think this is a huge bummer, so I’m just making this blog post my permanent home to track the progress on this.
August 14 2011
This is some code to get the header of some content area to stay visible at the top of the screen as you scroll through that content. Then go away when you’ve scrolled past that relevant section.
August 10 2011
Fun fun fun, the new site design is live!
We spend an entire hour looking at a Photoshop design and writing HTML5 markup that describes what we see. We try and be as semantic as we can and discuss the challenges of that as they come up. We don't write any actual CSS, but we discuss CSS as we go, because markup choices and where we do/don't need classes/ID's are directly related to that.