I’m a little behind in posting this, since it’s been live and in the media for a while now. Go check it out: http://buzz.yahoo.com
It took a lot of work to pull this thing together. Monday night was the craziest month of my web development career, culminating in this tweet posted as I finished pushing …Read More
So, it started out as just a few font changes. I’d been growing less and less pleased with Trebuchet MS, and had found a few cases where it broke the militant line-height rules I’d set for this site. In general, I felt that it was too crowded, and the gray hash textured background …Read More
Very soon now, the project that has consumed my days for the last 6 months will go into public beta. It’s too early to pop the champagne, and that’s not what this post is about. However, the newness of this project is worth pointing out for the following reason: We’re already planning a fairly major refactoring effort to take care of a lot of code rot that has crept into the designs.
That’s right. We haven’t released anything, and there’s already enough bloat to justify spending at least 2 weeks cleaning it up. …Read More
The Dungeons and Dragons party is, I believe, a much better metaphor for the modern programming team than Mills’ and Brook’s surgical team. In what has been called the geekiest thing every written
, I catalog some different character classes and explain their corollary roles in a web development team. I suspect that other types of programming teams have similar roles. …Read More
In my last post, I touched on a method to get different browsers to handle the inline-block display style. I decided to use that on a project that I’m working on now that has a few modal dialogs. Modals are usually done wrong on the web, but I’m pretty confident that this approach does it right.
Feel free to skip all this and go straight to the example.…Read More
Inline-block layout solves a lot of problems. It lets you do some cool stuff previously thought impossible with CSS. It makes vertical alignment work properly. And sadly, it’s supported pretty badly. I learned a new approach from one of the best insane inventor webdevs I know. The pieces have been out there for some time, it seems, but I hadn’t ever seen this spelled out as simply and elegantly as he did it. …Read More