The wannabe CSS Frameworks claim ease of use, intuitive syntax, efficiency and throw around the word "curated" like they have reached some sort of nirvana. Yet I've seen some of the dumbest code ever in their bloated treasures. Take, for example, the spacing features. One CSS Framework devotes an...
Through my research on CSS, I've run into quite a few sites that just don't seem to understand the difference between "rem" and "em" ... in particular, they reference "em" incorrectly. Historically, an "em" is calculated as the height and width of current font. In printing terms, the default is...
A lot of the CSS Frameworks throw the word "curate" or "curated" around like it is something special about their particular brand or feature set. Let's get real folks, there's nothing curated about any of the CSS Frameworks. Not even the one I am toying around with. Let's take a look at what a...
Wow, three articles today. Thought I would provide some clarification on file sizes. They are important, absolutely. Not everyone has a server properly configured to support gzip. A minified file would need all that wire to transmit without compression. Gzip is a super-compression technology...
After leaving school, I started an apprenticeship as a printer at the local newspaper. These were the letterpress days commonly known as "hot-metal". One of the tools I worked with was the saw you see at the right. It's a "glider" saw meant for lead and wood. The entire left side of the saw was a...
There's a proposed new color palette for the new CSS Framework. I'm not sure yet if this is the final version. The focus has been on the definitions. I have been using the HSL color space for just this reason. Each of the above colors is defined as an HSL color. HSL is an acronym that stands for...
I've been working on my roll-your-own CSS Framework project and found a few anomalies with unexpected results from my normalize (I use "sanitize.css"). I'm not sure what line they are on (I usually post that) because I've edited the header to indicate changes. I'll post information to identify the...
I put that question into a Google search. Well, partial. My question was actually "Is a CSS Framework really necessary". Some of the hits were answers that I wasn't expecting at all. Let me point out that I am pretty much retired. I am not peering forward at a career or considering direction....
The first Cascading Style Sheet specification (CSS v1) was launched in 1996. The first browser to use CSS was Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). It was not full support, only very limited. It did break the dam wide open. CSS v1 was one of the initial projects of the W3C Consortium founded in 1995....
Always admired those that use SASS. SASS is a pre-processor. Sort of a scripting language that provides access to features not commonly available in CSS. You can use mixins, variables, nested rules, imports, and built-in functions. I've resisted using SASS. I've seen some of the CSS generated via...