The Year 2011

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• XMAS Countdown

  Another edition of “the advent calendar for web geeks”.

  Link
  December 2, 2011
  

• Waiting for Con10uum

  Great concept for a “10 Finger Multitouch User Interface”.

  Link
  November 7, 2011
  

• Boot2Gecko

  Mozilla attempts to build an “operating system for the open web”.

  Link
  September 16, 2011
  

• Reset vs. Normalize

  How normalize.css differs from the traditional CSS reset.

  Essay
  July 17, 2011
  

• Farewell CSS Hacks

  It is time to remove all CSS hacks that target Internet Explorer.

  Essay
  June 30, 2011
  

• HTML5 Turntables

  Scott Schiller created a DJ App that is not based on Flash.

  Link
  June 27, 2011
  

• Markup by Mozilla

  I’ve just made my mark at markup.mozilla.org.

  Link
  June 15, 2011
  

• Take My Money (Again), @ABookApart

  I just bought two more books from them.

  Note
  June 12, 2011
  

• rem (Root Em), a Unit Introduced With CSS3

  Exploring the differences between em and rem.

  Essay
  May 26, 2011
  

• Image-to-HTML Converter

  Neil Fraser created a converter that turns images into HTML tables.

  Link
  April 15, 2011
  

• Conditional Comment Sarcasm

  80% of web development is about making sites work in IE.

  Note
  April 12, 2011
  

• Data URI Images: Are We There yet?

  A deeper look into pros and cons of data URIs.

  Essay
  April 11, 2011
  

• Awesome HTML5 Dashboard

  Spoiler: The title is not an empty promise.

  Link
  April 4, 2011
  

• Pure CSS Page Flip

  Román Cortés puts some shiny CSS3 stuff into action.

  Link
  March 27, 2011
  

• Sliding Door, No More

  Replacing the “Sliding Doors” technique with border-image.

  Essay
  March 26, 2011
  

• The Return of “From Redmond With Love”

  Another browser-shipping-based cake delivery took place.

  Link
  March 24, 2011
  

• Negative Text-Indent

  Those -9999px might cause some SEO frustration.

  Link
  March 14, 2011
  

• Bye Bye, Old-School Apps

  A refreshing take on apps by Mozilla Labs.

  Link
  March 4, 2011
  

• Say “Hello” to Device Fragmentation

  How to show your alternate designs.

  Essay
  February 26, 2011
  

• Invalid Valid JSON

  Sometimes an error is not where you look for it.

  Note
  February 20, 2011
  

• Full Page Backgrounds

  How to display an image as full page background while preserving its aspect ratio with CSS.

  Link
  February 18, 2011
  

• Device Pixels

  Peter-Paul Koch took a closer look on pixels.

  Link
  February 12, 2011
  

• Take My Money, @ABookApart

  Having read their first two books, I’m curious what comes next.

  Note
  February 1, 2011
  

• WikiLeaCSS

  Andy Clarke on separation of Content and Style.

  Link
  January 31, 2011
  

• CSS3 is Dead

  Designing for the lowest common denominator is no longer the way to go.

  Essay
  January 26, 2011
  

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