A brief round up of what I did this year, mainly for myself but you can read it if you want.
Posted in: General
22 September 2014
My professional life as a front-end developer started just before the Web Standards Project, everyone was working to make sure style was separated from content. It was drummed into me and I drummed it into you for many years, so it’s been difficult to forget.
19 September 2014
Are you bored of looking up which vendor-prefixes are still required for a particular rule on a particular day, or you want to remove the bloat that a catch-all mixin gives you? Then read on.
13 June 2014
A few links I found interesting this week.
13 May 2014
This would be useful on a calendar when selecting a range between two dates.
22 April 2014
This might be useful for a list of search results where you want the ability to show more images without the distraction of using a full carousel.
22 November 2013
The first in what I hope is a series of simple techniques to get around problems that at first sight might seem impossible. I like to say that everything is possible given a bit of thought*.
This technique is for when you need to place a background-image more than 100% to the right of the page.
16 August 2013
I was having a problem where adding a basic css opacity on an element wouldn’t work when viewing in iOS. Looked fine on desktop.
I didn’t come across a specific solution to my problem, but someone else had a similar thing when using opacity with transitions.
2 August 2013
Ever seen this when testing a website in IE8… Instead of the usual obfuscation using dots or stars, you see a square/rectangular symbol which usually shows up when the browser doesn’t have the entity available to display. The usual reason is that there is a custom font or webfont in use on the fields.
5 June 2013
It’s easy to make a perfect square in CSS – set an equal height and width and boom, you’re done. But what if you don’t always know the width of the square? For instance you’ve given the structures percentage widths to fit a fluid container.
No hacks, no javascript?
15 March 2013
I have a results table where each row is a form and the user continues by pressing the submit button for that result. At smaller widths I collapse the table, hide the submit button and add a click event handler to the tr – it works fine, up to a point.
A filter bar was added that uses AJAX to reorder and add to the results so now the DOM is being generated with JS. Usually you can use .on(event, selector, handler) to catch any generated elements, but this won’t work on iPhone or iPad*.
5 May 2012
Responsive web development is a relatively new technique and one that I’ve been implementing for the last 9 months or so professionally. Many articles have been written about how you should create a responsive site and wanted to get mine out there too.
3 March 2011
Note: I’m not American, but it feels weird writing ‘centre’ if you code in CSS all day.
I’ve come across a problem I need solving and Google is not being my friend. I need to center a button on the page without specifying its width, because the text inside is of various lengths. The following works how I want in Firefox, Safari, Opera and even IE6, 7 and 9 (thanks to Sarah for testing).