Almost a year ago, I wrote a draft of an article about Flash, and how its days were numbered. I never got round to finish it, but as I witnessed quite a few bloggers queueing up to carry Flash’ coffin to the grave recently, I thought I’d revisit it.
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CSS inheritance – remember your parent0
Time for a little CSS puzzle! Today I was faced with an issue I couldn’t find a quick solution for. Fortunately a developer had a good suggestion …
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To hell with Web Safe Fonts3
It’s time to leave the notion of “web safe fonts” behind us. Here is my presentation from Barcamp Antwerp last saturday, on alternatives to the current approach to fonts on the web.
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Background fallbacks2
RGBA colors are a very cool part of the CSS3 spec, but maybe you refrained from using RGBA because you wanted to support older browsers? Well, there is a perfectly simple fallback mechanism: provide two backgrounds.
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CSS variables/constants0
Over at the excellent css3.info blog, there’s some discussion about the concept of CSS variables or constants. There are two rather different proposals on the table, but I’m not really in favor of the idea in general.
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Fronteers 2008: what’s next for HTML, CSS and IE?4
Extended notes from the excellent Fronteers 2008 conference in Amsterdam. With lots of tasty news about the future of front-end development from industry insiders.
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Border-radius: a tale of two browsers5
A couple of years ago, the web was bursting with tutorials on how to make rounded corners with as little HTML/CSS/Javascript/images as possible. But then came the
continue reading …border-radiusproperty. So what’s keeping this little piece of beauty from being universally implemented?