Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
Sass Color Functions in CSS | Jim Nielsen’s Weblog
I’m not the only one swapping out Sass with CSS for colour functions:
Because of the declarative nature of CSS, you’re never going to get something as terse as what you could get in Sass. So sure, you’re typing more characters. But you know what you’re not doing? Wrangling build plugins and updating dependencies to get Sass to build. What you write gets shipped directly to the browser and works as-is, now and for eternity. It’s hard to say that about your Sass code.
Related links
Anchor position tool
This is a great little helper in understanding anchor positioning in CSS.
Justified Text: Better Than Expected? – Cloud Four
Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com
CSS wants you to build a system with it. It wants styles to build up, not flatten down.
Truth!
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A redesign with modern CSS.
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Why do browsers that don’t implement stylesheet switching still download alternative stylesheets?
Control
Trying to understand a different mindset to mine.
Talking about style
The transcript of a talk.