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One of the things I recognize at Google is how productive developers surround themselves with powerful tools for iterative development and debugging. For us front-end developers, the ecosystem of tools has exploded in the past two years, as we have a lot more software and libraries beyond Firebug …
or… The premise of prefixes makes unrealistic demands on how developers maintain sites There's a lot of conversation about making prefixes work (by changing policy), but I believe they already are at odds with the developer workflow. In this proposal I hope to show that: prefixes are …
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One of my least favorite parts about layout with CSS is the relationship of width and padding. You're busy defining widths to match your grid or general column proportions, then down the line you start to add in text, which necessitates defining padding for those boxes. And 'lo and …
This Wednesday, me and a ragtag team of like-minded developers launched Move the Web Forward, an initiative to direct people's passions into productive efforts that assist not only the web community but the entire web platform. People often feel the need to "give back", but when it …
While a lot of conversation has moved to twitter and G+, hugely useful information is still published regularly to blogs. I've shared collections of frontend development feeds twice before. Now I'm back, but with two choices: Frontend development exploration, techniques, tips. Lots of …
Just gave this talk at W3Conf about some of the innerworkings of HTML5. Lots of did-you-know and cool insight into how browsers work. 37 minutes long, The Primitives of the HTML5 Foundation – Slides I do discuss optional start and end tags as well as not quoting your attributes. I concede …
Divya Manian kicked off a good bout of discussion of HTML semantics with her post Our pointless pursuit of semantic value. It called into question the amount of time we spend on identifying the Right and Best ways of marking up our content while highlighting details of some of the consumers of …
Yehuda Katz and I recently asked this question on Twitter. We're very interested in seeing web browsers advance and implement the interests of web developers. We got a great response (230+ responses). After a triage of the responses, we narrowed down things to a hitlist that jumped out as …
You may soon be developing for 76 browsers. (?°?°??? ??? Lemme take a step back… So it's fair to say that for most of us, IE6 has gone the way of the dodo. Good! Now in IE7, we have less CSS issues, working PNGs, but pretty much the exact same JavaScript engine (though faster). IE8 [...]
Jonathan Snook asked me how to get insight in the Chrome DevTools on which elements are getting repainted in the browser's paint cycle. My answer, in video form, dives into --show-paint-rects and the Timeline view. (4 min long) Lots of small text, so fullscreening will help. Mentioned links: …
I want the web to win • Chrome dev relations • currently fascinated with front-end tooling and browser devtools • big fan of sorbet, research and whimsy http://paulirish.com
@timw4mail yeah.. my point is that Chrome, Firefox, Chrome Frame, Opera, *and* Safari all run on windows XP.@paul_irish
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