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5 January 2009

Effective browser support

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.

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.

Art of the Title

Title sequences. I particularly love Soylent Green.

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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3 December 2008

Widon’t

Love ExpressionEngine and typography, but hate widows? Eliminate widows in entry titles with the Widon't plugin.

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Transcending CSS (Book)

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