Breaking CSS Custom Properties out of :root Might Be a Good Idea
Share this: HelloSign: Everything IT requires and Developers love CSS Custom Properties have been a hot topic for a while now, with tons of great articles about them, from great primers on how they work to creative tutorials to do some real magic with them. If you’ve read more than one or two articles on the topic, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that they start by setting up the custom properties on the :root about 99% of the time. While putting custom properties on the :root is great for things that you need to be available throughout your site, there are times when it makes more sense to scope your custom properties locally.
Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
All layouts use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2. Each of the columns could be the longest, and for testing columns length I've used the script filler text on demand. Each layout could represent a site with five main sections: header, content, navigation, other stuff and footer. The basic markup, common to every layout, is the following:
Work with me – CSS Wizardry – consultancy, CSS code reviews, speaking, workshops, CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
I’ve been lucky enough to work with some really great people over the years, and some of them have said some really nice things about me: Harry’s tailored workshop was nothing short of fantastic, and a real eye-opener, helping our team level up their scalable CSS architecture skills. The entire team left it learning something new, and to say that what was covered will have a large impact on our work is an understatement. We can’t recommend him enough.Addy Osmani, Google Harry helped us answer some of our hardest CSS questions: how to organise a framework that doesn’t go against the way CSS works; how divide an interface into tiny, easily combinable pieces. We worked with Harry for one incredible week, in which we created a complete tailor-made CSS framework [and UI Toolkit] from scratch.
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Available glyphs Includes over 250 glyphs in font format from the Glyphicon Halflings set. Glyphicons Halflings are normally not available for free, but their creator has made them available for Bootstrap free of cost. As a thank you, we only ask that you include a link back to Glyphicons whenever possible. How to use For performance reasons, all icons require a base class and individual icon class.
New in Symfony 2.7: Security Improvements
In addition to high impact changes and big features, the new Symfony versions always add tweaks and minor improvements across its codebase. In this article you'll learn about three small security-related changes that will improve your day-to-day productivity as developer. Some developers add a magic __toString() PHP method to their user entities to define their string representation. This allows to use type casting such as (string) $user in the PHP application and {{ user }} in the Twig templates.
14 of the best JavaScript APIs
Here's our pick of the best JavaScript APIs around right now, plus a guide to getting started using them. These will help you add new and interesting functionality to your sites and apps. A word of warning: many of these APIs are still in development, so make sure you check browser support before you start using them, and provide fallbacks where necessary. You'll find a note of the API status at time of writing at the top of each entry. The best HTML APIs 01.
Sass: Sass Basics
Before you can use Sass, you need to set it up on your project. If you want to just browse here, go ahead, but we recommend you go install Sass first. Go here if you want to learn how to get everything setup. Preprocessing CSS on its own can be fun, but stylesheets are getting larger, more complex, and harder to maintain.
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Understanding Twitter Bootstrap 3
Version 3 of Twitter Bootstrap is a major change from all its past versions. It is a mobile-first framework and can claim to be one of the best CSS frameworks for building responsive website designs. In my last article I focused on building responsive websites using Twitter Bootstrap 2.
New NetBeans, Java EE, and HTML5 Book
Adding to several new books related to NetBeans, here's another one, which I received in a box of 10 yesterday, as one of its co-authors, together with JB Brock and Arun Gupta. Build and distribute business web applications that target both desktop and mobile devices. Cowritten by Java EE and NetBeans IDE experts, Java EE and HTML5 Enterprise Application Development fully explains cutting-edge, highly responsive design tools and strategies. Find out how to navigate NetBeans IDE, construct HTML5 programs, employ JavaScript APIs, integrate CSS and WebSockets, and handle security.
7 Useful JavaScript Tricks
Just like every other programming language, JavaScript has dozens of tricks to accomplish both easy and difficult tasks. Some tricks are widely known while others are enough to blow your mind. Let's have a look at seven JavaScript tricks you can start using today! Get Unique Values of an Array Getting an array of unique values is probably easier than you think:
Spring-cleaning Unused CSS With Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli or Brunch
The tough economic times on Tatooine hit everyone hard, including the Jawas. Delivering a fast experience on the web usually involves reducing server response time, minification of CSS/JS/HTML and an optimisation of images and above-the-fold content. We can further minimize the latency caused by stylesheet loading by removing unused CSS rules delivered to the client. In this write-up, we’ll take a look at build tasks you can use to remove unused CSS in your pages. Before we begin, I thought it would be useful to share some success stories just to demonstrate that the tools here can be used to make a difference.
