Impressive WebsCSS Network

Animating flexboxes: the lowdown

Louis Lazaris — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:09 +0000

“On a recent plane flight, I starting noodling around with combining flexbox properties, animations and transitions. I came to the conclusion that, for simple accordion-type UI features (see Figure 1), this can be quite useful.”

Adobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content

Louis Lazaris — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:23:05 +0000

“By combining a National Geographic feature entitled “Forest Giant” with some of Adobe’s contributions to web standards, Adobe has created a forward-looking vision of how readers will consume web content in the very near future.”

Desktop-first to Mobile-first with Bootstrap (slides)

Louis Lazaris — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:43:08 +0000

A nice quick little screencast by Mark Otto of Bootstrap fame.

Writing the best CSS when building with HTML5

Louis Lazaris — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:05:49 +0000

Lengthy piece by Todd Motto, and probably nothing new to those using OOCSS or modular CSS. What I especially like about this article is that it gives some real practical reasons why these approaches are better than what we might be accustomed to doing.

Architecting Scalable CSS (Slide Deck)

Louis Lazaris — Fri, 10 May 2013 06:49:30 +0000

A nice slide presentation by Harry Roberts from his talk at Industry Conf. Best line in this one: “Changing a dozen classes in your HTML is a lot simpler… than picking apart a tangled stylesheet.”

CSS Paint Times and Page Render Weight

Louis Lazaris — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:18:43 +0000

Colt McAnlis answers an interesting question: How do different CSS properties affect the render-weight of your page?

Docking Inspector for Responsive Design Testing

Louis Lazaris — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:53:35 +0000

This seems so obvious, so I can’t believe I haven’t thought of this yet. Great little tip that avoids the annoyance of resizing the whole window.

Responsive News blog by BBC news crew

Louis Lazaris — Wed, 01 May 2013 03:22:20 +0000

I just discovered this blog that evidently is updated by the BBC news crew. Definitely worth subscribing to if you’re looking for responsive design trends associated with large applications.

Can we get rid of gradient prefixes?

Louis Lazaris — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:58:45 +0000

This is definitely something I’ve been thinking about, and Lea has some good advice. See also the reader comments about IE10.

Is Your Responsive Web Design too Fragile?

Louis Lazaris — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:37:09 +0000

I’ve noticed this problem and patiently have worked around it, but didn’t realize it was happening because of scrollbars. Good info from Craig Buckler, and you can also check out his follow-up post on the same subject.