Comments for CSS Wizardry

Comment on CSS powered ribbons the clean way by Erin

Erin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:38:24 +0000

I’m currently learning css, do you mind if I use some of this code in my own project?

Comment on Sam Penrose Design—process and write-up by joey

joey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:08:21 +0000

the result is ugly on ie8. but it’s ok because your paradigm is proactive. eer sorry your content out in-browser design is mobile first and responsive.
sometimes it’s good to stop learning buzzword and how to label your work with them (2.0, xHTML 1 strict W3C validation…) and use your eyes.

Comment on Reset restarted by Adam Clark

Adam Clark — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:58 +0000

Are you seriously ever going to need ‘tt’, ‘kbd’, ’s’, ’samp’, ‘var’ or ‘applet’ elements in your projects? I’ve never seen them used. You might as well save yourself a little extra bytes and remove them too.

Comment on Creating a pure CSS dropdown menu by Ron

Ron — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:10:14 +0000

I’m sure this is a quick fix but how can one remove the spacing between the drop links? I’d like to have one solid color behind the links.

Any help is appreciated!

Comment on Fully fluid, responsive CSS carousel by Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:00:15 +0000

Just realised I should have qualified that question. I’ve managed to get it to scroll backwards quickly from position n to 1. But what I’m wondering… is there a way to make it appear that position 1 repositions to position 6, etc… so that it’s an infinite single direction caraousel?

Comment on Fully fluid, responsive CSS carousel by Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:56:18 +0000

Finally think I’m getting to grips with this!

Question: How would you somehow seamlessly cycle back to position 1, rather than reverse direction?

Comment on On HTML and CSS best practices by Phil

Phil — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:25:05 +0000

Love OOCSS but don’t really agree with this post. Efficiency, maintainability, and flexibility often conflict with each other. The balance you need to strike between them varies by project.

Overengineering is not a best practice. Knowing what you are trying to achieve is.

Comment on CSS powered ribbons the clean way by Karim

Karim — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:45:27 +0000

very nice :-) i was actually looking of how to do that away from images to use on a website, it will load a bit faster than slicing up images and all that!

thanks…

Comment on Pure CSS(3) accordion by Prodyot

Prodyot — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:10:32 +0000

Very cool accordions in pure css.
Great bud.
I am definitely going to use it in my site :)
I tested it in FIREFOX and it works in mine.
It worked in Opera and Chrome too.
I just hope my users have learnt to leave IE behind :)
Thanks for sharing, bud.
Best wishes.

Comment on Measuring and sizing UIs, 2011-style by Bobby Jack

Bobby Jack — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:23:25 +0000

@Thomas: since the quote was mine I’ll respond:

It wasn’t intended as some deep and meaningful revelation about web design, more as a comment borne of frustration at people who think it’s *impossible* for the font-size displayed on a website to be *any* different from what they see.

Moreover, I wasn’t talking exclusively about user stylesheets (which, I agree, are – unfortunately – underused); whilst Harry’s chosen to talk *not* about text scaling, I had that specifically in mind. Do you have any figures to back up the claim that “Most users don’t know anything about their browsers except that it allows them to view websites.”? In my experience, the very people that *really* need these features (i.e. those that are poor-sighted) *are* aware of them.

I’ve been recording the minimum font-size setting of visitors to my own site for some time now. Whilst the majority appear to not have changed the setting, there are significant numbers who have. Certainly more than ‘none’. And that’s just minimum font-size – one small factor that drives used font-size.

I think, all-in-all, “not *everyone* is listening…” is, therefore, pretty fair :-)