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Yesterday another major debate on the web was started by an innocuous little comment from Elliot Jay Stocks on Twitter.
Honestly, I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code their own designs. No excuse.
Since then people with much greater expertise and talent than myself (Richard, Mark, Mike, and Elliot himself) have weighed in on the topic. I highly recommend you go and check out what they have to say, but what do I think?
Text Rotation with CSS. This is surprisingly easy to implement - will have to give it a shot.
{less} is one of the most exciting things I have seen happen to CSS in as long as I can remember. {less} stands for “leaner CSS” and is a system that Alexis Sellier and Dmitry Fadeyev have come up with to bring some of the concepts of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) to CSS.
{less} is designed to let you extend the way you code CSS by letting you use variables, mixins,operations and nested rules. Let’s take a look at each of these.
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Veerle has a great little post on using CSS to implement attractive and simple breadcrumbs for your site.
There’s a lot of noise being attacking, and in defense of, the announcement that Internet Explorer 8 will target different rendering engines using a <meta> tag in the header. Apparently this move is in order to avoid “breaking” the web when they release new browsers (a-la the introduction of IE7 last year).The proposal is that from Internet Explorer 8 onwards, pages will render as they should appear in IE7, unless you include the line of code
<meta HTTP-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
in the head of your document, in which case it will render using the new IE8 engine with better CSS support. This way sites won’t break when a new version of IE is released, but developers will still be able to use the new features should they wish. Essentially designers/developers will have to “opt-in” for the new rendering engine, but it won’t be used by default. keep reading…