This might have performance/repaint issues, but an interesting improvement on icon fonts. Conor Muirhead discusses how to create complex multi-color icons using icon fonts, instead of the usual single-color icons.
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This might have performance/repaint issues, but an interesting improvement on icon fonts. Conor Muirhead discusses how to create complex multi-color icons using icon fonts, instead of the usual single-color icons.
Jonathan Snook at 2012′s Smashing Conference, talking up modular CSS.
I haven’t yet delved into the details on shadow DOM. If you have, then you might be interested in this piece that talks about styling shadow DOM elements. Definitely not light reading, and probably far future as far as real-world use, but it’s cool to know that things are moving ahead.
I’ve been meaning to grok this feature for a while now, and integrate it with my CSS animiations along with a setTimeout fallback for older browsers. This article might be a good start.
Russ Weakley with an extensive look at modular CSS techniques. 166 slides, so buckle up.
Philip Walton discusses an approach using Sass for avoiding class name conflicts in selectors when mixing CSS libraries.
Catalin Rosu’s take at responsive drop-down menus, supported in IE8+ and using Sass.
A simple tip from David Baron on helping the web become browser-agnostic.
The code is awful (i.e. don’t ever do this in a real project unless it’s a game or something), but the result is quite impressive.
Lots of different ways to horizontally center a group of elements of unknown width.