Posts in css Category

Oct 21, 2008

Use HSS To Use Variables In CSS

Nicolas Cannasse has gone ahead and added variables to CSS. There have been efforts earlier to improve CSS, like CleverCSS and Sass. However, by adding variables Nicolas has perhaps lightened the argument of non-semantic CSS names in CSS frameworks. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: css, tools · Tagged: css, hss · (2)

Mar 15, 2008

Using JavaScript To Detect CSS Support

Progressive Enhancement is one of the key ways of ensuring accessibility. However, it has been commonly known to be applied to using JavaScript. John Resig explains a method, called Progressive CSS Enhancement. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: accessibility, css, javascript · Tagged: progressive-enhancement · (1)

Dec 21, 2007

W3C v/s Developer Community

W3C again finds itself fighting the Web designer and developer community. It seems to have started from Andy Clarke’s call for reorganizing the CSS Working Group. Andy raises a concern that browser vendors, which compete with each other, will act in good interest of collaboratively developing the new CSS standard. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: css, standards, web · Tagged: css working group, w3c · (1)

Dec 20, 2007

Acid2 And Browsers

Acid2 is a nice way to test the standards compliance of a browser. What is not nice is that most of the popular browsers did not pass it. Surprisingly, this is changing fast. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, css, standards, web · Tagged: acid2, browsers · (6)

Dec 9, 2007

Reusability And Non-semantic Names

Recently, a lot has been said about CSS frameworks and non-semantic names. It is quite true that a CSS framework like Blueprint or YUI Grids gives you non-semantic names. I am not even going to venture into whether it is good or bad, this seems to be a subjective topic. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: css, programming · Tagged: blueprint, frameworks, semantic · (1)

Aug 6, 2007

Blueprint - A CSS Framework

It was about time! With so many good CSS developers keeping chunks of code aside to be reused across projects, a framework was imminent. Olav Bjørkøy takes the credit for building the first one - Blueprint. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, css · Tagged: blueprint, framework, olav-bjorkoy · (7)

Apr 5, 2007

Stripped Off

Answering to the call for CSS Naked Day (via Lorelle), this blog is stripped of its design. You can see underneath the hood, something that is seen by the search engines day in and day out. An interesting observation was that, when I renamed the style.css to something else, Wordpress picked up the default style. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, css · Tagged: css-naked-day · (4)

Mar 4, 2007

Rationale Behind The Current Design

So finally do get time to explain some rationale behind the current design. I would like to clarify that I am not a Web designer, that is, professionally. I am a software programmer, who understands the elements of design, or maybe still trying to. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: css, design, this · Tagged: · (4)

Feb 5, 2007

Style Switcher For Wordpress

Christian Montoya shows his nifty implementation of a cookie-based style switcher for Wordpress. I learnt about this first while reading Roger Johansson’s implementation of the style switcher. can add capability to your application to give your user a choice of the style. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, css, php, web · Tagged: christian-montoya, css-switcher · (2)

Jan 12, 2007

New W3C CSS Validator Release

W3C’s CSS validator ckimbs the mountain to a new release - Fuji. It now defaults to CSS 2.1 specification for validation. The layout is new, as that of the preview of Unicorn - a tool that checks the markup and stylesheet both. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, css, web · Tagged: css-validator, fuji, validator, w3c · (0)

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