Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “css”
Bookmarks
SVG images as CSS backgrounds - Helephant.com
I didn't know you could do this - awesome.
rnk's django-media-bundler at master - GitHub
Looks like this is the best media bundling Django app out there. Bundles and minimizes JavaScript and CSS, and also combines images into sprites, generating the CSS rules for using those sprites.
CleverCSS
Like those hackish CSS preprocessors that everyone writes when they get pissed about CSS's lack of variables, except actually well-thought-out and basically awesome. I think I'll be using this for my CSS from now on.
cascadenik: cascading sheets of style for mapnik (tecznotes)
Awesome idea - this should help make mapnik configuration easier.
CSS Variables Are The Future | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency
Alex actually looks carefully at the arguments against CSS variables and utterly destroys them. Am I the only one completely astounded that the main skeptics of browser advancement are now inside the W3C?
Yahoo! UI (YUI) + Django templates == Google Code project! FTW! | Ryan Kanno: The diary of an Enginerd in Hawaii
A series of base templates that implement YUI grid layouts. Neat.
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Downloadable Fonts
Holy crap: “With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another.” If other browser manufacturers can be convinced to support this we could finally see some good typography online.
JoeHewitt.com: Introducing iUI
Joe Hewitt's JavaScript/CSS utilities for nice iPhone apps.
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
Nifty font utility for browsers
Clearing a float container without source markup
Pure CSS self-clearing floats, without any JS hacks or additional markup!
Entries
Descriptivists and Prescriptivists
What happened to the web standards descriptivists?
Typography: Rhythm & Proportion
Lessons from The Elements of Typographic Style: rhythm and proportion.