Underline can look and work better, can they?
In the beginning: CSS and CSS 2 # Links have been on the web since the beginning as a representation of a connection to another document. In the beginning you could only change the color of the link...
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Managing the CSS Cascade
There are times when the CSS cascade becomes a pain in the ass. When we want to revert the value of a property to its default (before we added any other value for the property in the current element...
Digital books on the web
Rather than trying to come up with new strategies for taking ebooks forward (strategies we know are not going to work in the long run) I've been exploring processes and technologies to turn web...
Custom HTML5 video playlist
Another idea is how to create playlists like those on Youtube but without having to code the entire interface from scratch. Dudley Storey, again, proposed a solution using CSS display: table and a...
Custom controls for HTML5 video
One of the cool things about HTML5 video is that you can fully customize it to suit your needs and preferences. Dudley Storey has an interesting demo and tutorial on how to add custom controls for a...
Lazy Loading Youtube Embeds
After images the biggest payloads in my pages are Youtube embedded videos and since I already lazy load images I've decided to explore how to best lazy load embedded Youtube iframes; I embed Vimeo...
Sizing type for the web
As I begin working on layouts one of the things that started to beg for attention is how to size the text properly for it to be legible online as well as being pleasant to the eye when looking at the...
Balancing content with Flexbox
One of the cool things we can do with Flexbox is to balance the text and images as if they were in a two-cell table. It should be possible to do so with images but instead we'll simulate two cells...
Asm.js and Web Assembly
I've been hearing about Web Assembly and its predecessor, ASM.js for a while. The idea is that we can bring C and C++ code into the web and use it directly on the browser without having plugins get in...
Intersection Observers: Making it easier to lazy load content
What I love about Paul Lewis' Developer Diaries is that he points me to new technologies and better ways to work with web content. In this case (video below) he clued me into a new API: Intersection...