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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 Point is a post from CSS-Tricks

“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 is a good idea to which one language is best. [...]

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

There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing with responsive images lately. 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 Schmitt and I have created this spreadsheet of techniques. The [...]

I recently heard Chris Eppstein give a talk (slides) about creating better stylesheets and using SASS to 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 elements like p, ul, ol, h1, h2, etc that [...]

Another RAPIDFIRE show where Dave and I answer as many lister questions as we possibly can. Direct Link to Article — Permalink ShopTalk Show #17 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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 the kind of thing computers [...]

CSS3 has some new values for sizing things relative to the current viewport size: vw, vh, and vmin. It is relevant to bring up now, because it’s shipping in Chrome 20 (canary at the time of this writing). And not behind a flag, it just works. Production usage isn’t quite there, but it will be [...]

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, so I made one. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Conditional Content via CSS Media Queries [...]

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, and more. Direct Link to Article — Permalink ShopTalk Episode 16 is a post from CSS-Tricks