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Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what’s new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF), and more. It’s a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers. New print copies are on order and [...]

Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it’s experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that property. Unfortunately at this point, even if you could get all the browsers on board, you’d need to use this and vendor prefixes [...]

What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money? You should vote not based on if there will be any attempt at it, which there [...]

Dave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more. Sponsored by LessAccounting. Direct Link to Article — Permalink ShopTalk Episode 4 is a post from CSS-Tricks

Paul Irish suggests universal selector to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I’ve been wanting to try this forever as this box model is, in my opinion, just better. Imagine elements with percentage widths and pixel padding that doesn’t result in disaster. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Better Box Sizing is a post from [...]

A very serious not at all tongue-in-cheek gallery of CSS3 techniques that poo-poos the fancy in favor of the practical. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Real-World CSS is a post from CSS-Tricks

…is now a stable release. It’s notable because it’s the first release with it’s own built in developer tools (video overview). It’s all HTML/CSS for now (not a Firebug replacement) but they are nicely designed and a great first step for a product that really should be in-house. Also, CSS 3D transforms! After you’ve upgraded, [...]

In this latest poll, I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to mediocre, to nearly unusably slow. I would have guessed a bell curve, with most people having mediocre speeds and just [...]

Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript. The markup uses the unicode entity for a star (?) right in it. If you have a UTF-8 [...]

If your web app doesn’t look or work as well as Bootstrap does out of the box, it’s time to have a pretty serious discussion with your team about why. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 is a post from CSS-Tricks