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Backgrounds, Shadows, Fonts, and the Cascade 10 hours ago

In the cascade, all other things being equal, the last one declared is the winner. In backgrounds and shadows, the reverse is true.

Defining ‘ch’ yesterday

I’m working my way through a rewrite of Two Salmon (more on that anon), and I just recently came to the ch unit.

Vendor Tokens last week

It may be that from the ashes of vendor prefixes will arise a new way forward.

Linear Gradient Keywords 2 weeks ago

Linear gradients in CSS can lead to all kinds of wacky, wacky results—some of them, it sometimes seems, in the syntax itself.

Firefox Failing localStorage Due to Cookie Policy 3 weeks ago

I recently stumbled over a subtle interaction between cookie policies and localStorage in Firefox. Herewith, I document it for anyone who might run into the same problem (all four of you).

Element Customization last month

A couple of weeks back I wrote about customizing your markup , but I got an important bit wrong and while I’ve corrected the post, I wanted to clear up the error in detail.

Whitespace in CSS Calculations last month

I’ve been messing around with native calculated values in CSS, and there’s something a bit surprising buried in the value format.

Transiently Damaged PDF Attachments last month

I have this very odd problem that seems to be some combination of PDF, Acrobat, Outlook, Thunderbird, and maybe even IMAP and GMail. I know, right? The problem is that certain PDFs sent to me by a single individual won’t open at first. I’ll get one as an email attachment. I drag the attachment to …

Customizing Your Markup last month

HTML5 allows you (at the moment) to create your own custom elements. Only, not really.

Invented Elements last month

This morning I caught a pointer to TypeButter , and I’m very interested by how TypeButter accomplishes its kerning.

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