Explorations and Experiments
Jen makes a great point on her presentation. Where are the awesome layouts that we see in print reflected on the web? We are not tied into the "rectangular boxes" wisdom of the web anymore....
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Getting Fancy: Blend Modes
Compositing and Blending Level 1 candidate recommendation provides a way to composite elements in HTML and SVG using CSS. Think of the way you can create non destructive clips and masks in Photoshop;...
Getting fancy: Shapes and masks
CSS Shapes allow designers and content creators to match some magazines layouts where the text wraps around images and other polygonal and irregular shapes. Why do I include shapes in an essay about...
Getting Fancy: Animating text
Depending on the context and the type of text you're using animations can be useful. CSS Animation Level 1 provides a way to animate CSS properties over time. It uses key frames to create the...
Getting fancy: CSS Transformations
One of the most intriguing things we can do with text is change its position and the way it looks on the screen with nothing but CSS in browsers that support it. The good news is that all browsers...
Using SASS maps in media queries
Version 3 of SASS introduced the map data type. If you've done work in any other programming type you'll problbly be familiar with maps as associate arrays or hashes; SASS uses the same principle:...
Multicolumn layouts
CSS 3 allows you to create multi column layouts without cheating. According to caniuse.com the feature is supported to some degree by all browser vendors. We'll explore some of the things you can do...
Orphans and Widows
The orphans CSS property refers to the minimum number of lines of text in a container that must be left at the bottom of the page. This property is normally used to control how page breaks occur. In...
Legal Issues
Unless you own the typeface or it is licensed through Google Fonts or another free service, you will have to pay for the font and be subject to whatever restrictions the EULA (End User License...
Unicode and multilingual support
Unicode is an ISO international standard (ISO/IEC 10646) for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text in most of the world's writing systems. It answers the question: How do I...