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Comment on ‘CSS: The Definitive Guide’, Fourth Edition by Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:40 +0000

Matt and Praveen: the answer to that is pretty much, “When it’s done.” I don’t currently know when that will be, but I would not expect it in 2013. The fast-changing nature of CSS right now makes it especially hard to know, since it means that by the time I get close to the end I may find I have three more chapters to write—or I may get close to the end and discover that I can drop two chapters.

Comment on ‘CSS: The Definitive Guide’, Fourth Edition by Praveen Gowda I V

Praveen Gowda I V — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:39:36 +0000

When will the 4th edition be released?

Comment on Collective Editorial: the Plugin by billy bob

billy bob — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:31:26 +0000

Have you seen the Google+ Feedback mechansim ?

Gives options to highlight and blackout portions of the page – with a text field for a description / instructions etc…

Submits “privately” (as private as Google can muster).

Comment on Reset Reloaded by “CSS Reset” theory | Firefly's space

“CSS Reset” theory | Firefly's space — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:08:29 +0000

[...] If you wanted to go completely bat poop crazy on reseting every possibly everything, check this out. [...]

Comment on Collective Editorial: the Plugin by Sergey Ermolaev

Sergey Ermolaev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:19:53 +0000

Try Orphus.

Comment on Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:09:42 +0000

Thank you! A fantastic, yet little-known trick.

This was the ONLY way I could find to get my 100MB PDF down to an e-mailable size. Much obliged to you.

Comment on Ciao, Camino by Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:02:46 +0000

Well thank you for this, it helped me make the transition although I’m still not comfortable there.

Thanks for all the sites, Camino-which-I-started-using-when-it-was-called-Chimera.

Comment on Where to Avoid CSS Hyphenation by Typography - One of the Most Important Aspect of Web Design

Typography - One of the Most Important Aspect of Web Design — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:27:44 +0000

[...] Since hyphens is an inherited property, it isn’t sufficient to set it for a limited number of elements and assume you’re done. You have to make sure you’ve turned it off for the elements that shouldn’t be hyphenated. — Eric Meyer [...]

Comment on Reset v2.0 by The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme

The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:52:43 +0000

[...] The point of a reset is to zero out as much as possible … [and] to serve as a starting point for your own baseline styles — Eric Meyer [...]

Comment on Reset Styles by The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme

The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:43:40 +0000

[...] to address user agent style differences in 2004, with the YUI CSS Reset appearing in 2006, and the Meyer Reset in [...]

Comment on Really Undoing html.css by The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme

The Pastry Box Project | 3 June 2013, baked by Oli Studholme — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:01:46 +0000

[...] Çelik and Eric Meyer started discussing a more targeted way to address user agent style differences in 2004, with the [...]

Comment on Ciao, Camino by Aldrik

Aldrik — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:53:56 +0000

Firefox has as build-in way to block flash: plugins.click_to_play. There's also a click-to-play-manager addon which adds a whitelisting (not used it myself).

Comment on How Twitter Got Its Line Breaks by Jesse Gardner

Jesse Gardner — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:38:53 +0000

Honoring the double-space after the period? This gives me great joy. If I recall correctly, I think double-spacing after the period in Tweets was one of the first face-to-face conversations you and I ever had.

Comment on Reset Revisited by A Simple, Responsive, Mobile First Navigation | Joliet Junior College-Web Design Certificate

Thu, 30 May 2013 19:51:31 +0000

[...] I’ve always found Eric Meyer’s reset to be a solid basis to work from, especially as he’s tweaked it recently. We’ll add his reset rules to a stylesheet to kick our css [...]

Comment on Unitless line-heights by Taking Ems Even Further | Webdesigntuts+

Taking Ems Even Further | Webdesigntuts+ — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:40:20 +0000

[...] you’re interested in reading more on the topic Eric Meyer covered it solidly way back in 2006, plus Harry Roberts has a great overview of measurement units from a couple of [...]