Do we have the tools to do print on the web? # More and more I'm starting to think we can do a fairly nice job of doing print-like layouts for our web content. Not all the technologies are ready yet...
This topic may sound familiar to people who have been reading my blog for a while. I’ve posted about most, if not all the component technologies I’ll be speaking about below. I hope I can change the...
One of the most frustrating things from doing CSS development is all the cool things that appear on the horizon that we can't really use right now and won't be able to until browser vendors decide...
my take on cutting the mustard # I'm old enough to remember doing some serious browser detection when building pages. We had to detect browsers because they worked different enough (even within...
One of the earliest large scale interactions between man and technology I saw is Unnumbered Sparks, an installation by Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin produced for TED’s 30th anniversary in Vancouver,...
HTML documents don’t have many features to include additional semantics. With (X)HTML we could use namespaces but nowadays everyone seems to hate anything related to XML and the functionality of...
Gulp 4.0, the next version of Gulp, should be released any day now and it will make some parts of the workflow easier to manage. This section is not a comprehensive guide to Gulp 4 and the changes it...
The custom tasks use Gulp 3 syntax. You will have to change them to work with Gulp 4 After we’ve created the tasks we need for our project, we can define custom tasks to run one or more of these...
Serving content under development and watching for file changes # It’s nice to publish to gh-pages when we want but to do so after every change we make to our code (CSS, JS or HTML) gets old really...
Now for what, to me, is the most tedious part of the workflow… copying things around and doing housekeeping on the files I’m working with. This is easier now since I don’t have to create directories...