960 Grid System Modernizr Modernizr est une bibliothèque JavaScript conçue pour détecter des fonctionnalités spécifiques de HTML et CSS dans les navigateurs. Puisqu'il est inutile d'embarquer un fichier complet de détection dans tous les sites web, un script sur mesure peut être construit en piochant parmi les fonctionnalités détectables. Il sera par exemple possible de savoir si le navigateur supporte les transformations CSS 3D, la vidéo HTML5, Canvas ou SVG, et de prévoir une alternative le cas échéant. Son usage est très simple, il suffit de copier-coller les quelques lignes générées dans le code source de la page, ou bien dans un fichier externe, puis d'exploiter l'objet Modernizr et ses propriétés (par exemple Modernizr.canvas, Modernizr.fontface, Modernizr.geolocation etc), initialisées aux valeurs booléennes true ou false.
How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients? | How-To | Smash Advertisement You may have noticed that in certain business and marketing circles there exists a “backlash” against the design community. Despite the rise of attractive, user-friendly solutions, in such circles unattractive designs have somehow managed to remain at the verge of acceptance. You’ll hear ideas being thrown around like “design is a waste of time — we have a really ugly site which outsells our competitors 3 to 1″ or “we are not worried about the design, we’ll outsource it or use a free WordPress theme, let us focus more on the product”. You can almost sense a little bit of pride in how ugly their web-site is, or that they are treating design like a commodity. This article provides you with 5 guidelines you can use as a designer to “speak business” — even if it’s just to get your foot in the door or land a big project. 1. Designers like to show off portfolios. To a business person, “beautiful” or “visually stunning” are just a first step. Compare these two sites for a moment.
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Sass/Less Comparison (updated 2011-02-09) -- thanks to chriseppstein for starting this In this document I am using Sass's SCSS syntax. You can choose to use the indented syntax in sass, if you prefer it, it has no functional differences from the SCSS syntax. For less, I'm using the ruby version because this is what they suggest on the website. The javascript version may be different. Variables Both languages support scoped variable definition within a selector context. And their different output: Nested Selectors Sass has the & selector that allows nested selector to refer to the parent scope. Mixins Mixins with Arguments / Dynamic Mixins Differences between mixins with Args: 1. Selector Inheritance Less does not provide selector inheritance. Colors Both less and sass provide color math. Sass provides a full array of tools for manipulating colors. Sass exposes a long list of color functions not found in CSS: Accessors: red($color)green($color)blue($color)hue($color)saturation($color)lightness($color)alpha($color) Mutators: Note: Less.js provides a number of similar color functions.
Planning a Semantic Web site This article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL). You'll see how the Semantic Web is layered on top of the existing Web. Introduction to the Semantic Web The World Wide Web is the largest single information resource humanity has ever produced. The Semantic Web is Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the future of the Web. The Web was originally all about documents. Structuring data adds value to that data. The individual APIs that everyone is busy building are to solve the exact same problem that the Semantic Web is intended to address: Expose the content of the Web as data and then combine disparate data sources in different ways to build new value. Back to top Semantic Web technology overview Figure 1.
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