I’m Presenting on CSS in October

I haven’t posted about this yet. I’m an incredible idiot. I’m presenting at the Boston PHP group in October. My presentation is a couple of weeks before Steve Krug. No pressure. I hope to see you there 🙂 Learn CSS (with me) Is CSS still a mystery to you? Do you find yourself editing your […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 4: The Body

The body is clearly going to take a while, since it contains all of the content on the page. I’ll be breaking it out into chunks. This first post will focus on how I use the body tag itself. I generally use the body tag to hold basic information about the page to use with […]

Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask

Yes, I’m still helping out with screening candidates. I haven’t yet interviewed someone to replace me, but there’s still a week to go. Anyway, we’ve had a couple of technical questions that candidates universally failed to answer. Why share them here? For starters I just want to know if we’re crazy to expect people to […]

Rethinking the “How To Serve IE-Specific CSS” Question

This is my old pattern: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <title>Internet Exploder</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/styles.css" /> <!–[if gte IE 5.5]> <![if lt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie6.css" /> <![endif]> <![if IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie7.css" /> <![endif]> <![if gt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/_assets/styles/ie8.css" /> <![endif]> <![endif]–> </head> <body id="home"> Simple. It serves a new style […]

Microsoft’s CSS Filters, Could The Syntax Be Any Uglier?

The answer is no 🙂 While some of the functionality of MS’s CSS filters is actually pretty useful (sue me, I need to use them from time to time), the implementation is ugly as hell. Ryan, one of the smart guys here that helps me fool people into thinking I know what I’m doing, had […]