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SASS vs. LESS

"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?"is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing...

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

By Chris Coyier

Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides. Direct Link to Article—Permalink…Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Pointis a post fromCSS-Tricks

ShopTalk Episode 18

By Chris Coyier

With ol' Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks toMijingofor sponsoring this episode. Direct Link to Article—Permalink…ShopTalk Episode 18is a post fromCSS-Tricks

Which responsive images solution should you use?

By Chris Coyier

There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing withresponsive imageslately. That is, solutions to help us serve the right image for the occasion (e.g. size of screen and bandwidth available). They all do things a bit differently. To keep track, Christopher...

Opt-in Typography

By Chris Coyier

I recently heardChris Eppsteingive a talk (slides) about creating better stylesheets and usingSASSto do it. There were a couple of surprising bits in there, one of which was about "opt-in typography." The idea was that instead of setting global styles for typographic...

ShopTalk Episode 17

By Chris Coyier

Another RAPIDFIRE show where Dave and I answer as many listener questions as we possibly can. Direct Link to Article—Permalink…ShopTalk Episode 17is a post fromCSS-Tricks

Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic

By Chris Coyier

Most address fields on web forms ask for city, state, and zip code (or city and post code, outside of the US). But as us nerds often lament, city and state are redundant with zip code. Or at least they can be inferred from a correctly entered zip code. That's...

Viewport Sized Typography

By Chris Coyier

CSS3 has some new valuesfor sizing things relative to the current viewport size:vw,vh, andvmin. It is relevant to bring up now, because it's shipping in Chrome 20 (canaryat the time of this writing). And not behind a flag, it just works. Production usage isn't...

ShopTalk Episode 16

By Chris Coyier

Dave and I were joined by Ian Stewart, a Theme Wrangler at Automattic for WordPress.com (he's probably thinking about WordPress themes right this very minute). We talked about WordPress multisite, training clients in WordPress, database syncing, team productivity,...

Conditional Content via CSS Media Queries

By Chris Coyier

Jeremy Keith has a great article on his journey to allowing JavaScript to load in content based on the currently active media query. This allows you to keep media queries only in the CSS (DRY!). The article was sans-demo, soI made one. Direct Link to Article—Permalink…Conditional...