Paul Boag on how progressive enrichment improves accessibility, reduces costs and ensures every user gets the best experience possible within the limitation of their choice of browser.
For A Beautiful Web Blog: External links
5 January 2009
Effective browser support
24 December 2008
CSS SuperScrub
Reduces the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names
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20 December 2008
The 11 Coolest Mugs for a Hot Cup o’ Joe
Collection of fab mug designs. I picked up the Alcatraz inmate tin mug when I went to the island this summer.
18 December 2008
Shiny Happy Buttons
John Allsopp on taking a plain old boring HTML button, and 2.0 it up the wazoo over at 24ways.
Progressive enhancement with CSS3
Nick Cowie on how to make funky Web 2.0 buttons from text just using CSS that does not break in older browsers.
16 December 2008
Not quite what I had in mind.
George Oates on being affected by the layoffs
at Yahoo. How companies, how people deal with tough times says a lot about them. Yahoo told the world not to trust them.
gridr buildrrr
Too many 'rrr's in this handy dynamic grid builder, but useful nonetheless. I do worry though that this 960 width grid approach is too quickly making people lazy about grids.
12 December 2008
HTML-ipsum
Lipsum.com has been in my bookmarks bar for just about as long as I can remember, but this is far handier. Great job by the guys from CSS Tricks
Video interview with Andy Clarke
I was interviewed during the Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam earlier this year after my talk on CSS positioning, Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
11 December 2008
Equal Height Columns with jQuery
If you are not ready to fix equal heights by using display:table;, this jQuery plugin might be just what you're looking for.
3 December 2008
Widon’t
Love ExpressionEngine and typography, but hate widows? Eliminate widows in entry titles with the Widon't plugin.
From the people behind For A Beautiful Web and Stuff and Nonsense. You will find news about our events, links to sites and articles elsewhere that have inspired us, plus original articles and screencasts on the creative and technical sides of web site design and development by Andy Clarke and others.