TL;DR on Vendor Prefix Drama
Feb
10
2012
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Quick overview of the hot drama regarding vendor prefixes.
Musings on Preprocessing
Feb
8
2012
I’ve been using SASS for pretty much everything I do recently. Here’s some musings on the journey. From hold-ups, to trip-ups, to turn-offs. From apps and teams to workflows and syntax.…
Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color
Feb
6
2012
Interesting question:
css3 speech bubble question: for the “triangle”‘s border color, how can I set it to whatever its parent div’s bgcolor is automagically?
— Jin Yang (@jzy) February 1, 2012…
New Poll: In The Next 10 Years, Will We See CSS Competitor?
Feb
2
2012
What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money?
You should vote not based on if there will be any attempt at it, which there certainly will be and already has. But instead if you think one of those attempts will actually make it into native support by a browser …
Star Ratings With Very Little CSS
Feb
1
2012
Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript.…
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- Remove Inline Styles
- Remove Specific Value from Array
- Paste Events
- Turn on WordPress Error Reporting
- Remove Gallery Inline Styling
- Detect Location by IP
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Latest Screencast
#109: Getting off FTP and onto Git Deployment with Beanstalk
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven't had much experience with this, so forgive me if it's a big rough.
We start by moving the live website local, including bringing all the files down and copying the database. Then we set up a Git repository in Beanstalk and push it all up to that. Then we give Beanstalk our FTP credentials and set up how we want deployment done. Then we make some local changes to our site, and commit/push them to Beanstalk, which does the deployment for us. By then end, it's all working perfectly.
If you've got questions/comments/suggestions on this workflow, I'd love to hear!
Links from the video:
- Coda
- WordPress
- Plesk / phpMyAdmin
- ChrisCoyier.net / MediaTemple
- Sequel Pro
- Sublime Text 2
- Beanstalk
- MAMP / MAMP Screencast [1] [2]
- Git Tower / GitHub Screencast
Hot Links
ShopTalk Episode 5 →
Jeffrey Way, Dave and I talk shop about some newly released projects, -webkit-gate, and our weekly staple of Q&A.
A proposal to drop browser vendor prefixes →
Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it's experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that property. Unfortunately at this point, even if you could get all the browsers on board, you'd need to use this and vendor prefixes to get deep support, which makes the problem worse. What we really need is for all browsers to implement auto-updating so eventually "supporting older browsers" is something we can look back and laugh at.
Digging Into WordPress 3.3 →
Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what's new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF), and more. It's a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers. New print copies are on order and will be available soon.