Dec 5

CSS Variables and why you’re doing it wrong

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein

I’m a great fan of that quote. It’s completely true that making something bigger and more complex can be accomplished by any old fool. But making that something smaller, more compact and generally speaking more refined—well now, we’re talking about a completely different kettle of fish.

Which is why I can’t browse the Internets these days without stumbling into some new fang-dangled state-of-the-art CSS-parsing-framework Web 2.0 (beta). And every time I see them I cringe. And to be honest they’re normally written in Ruby. Which answers a hell’uva lot of questions.

Oct 18

Battle of the CSS positions

It all began a couple days ago, one slightly dull Tuesday afternoon. The air was thick and the light was dimmed. Ahem, I have a challenge for you; try and place a div underneath another. “Piece of cake,” you say. “That’s hardly a challenge”. Well, not so it would seem. I was perplexed by what I saw for a few minutes, at least. So much that I wrote this article and created a little demonstration.