Browsing CSS
CSS Performance Testing
Jon Sykes thoroughly tests and confirms Dave Hyatt’s suggestion that sibling, descendant and child selectors have a significant, negative impact on page rendering. More importantly, his tests quantify the actual impact on performance. That’s it, I’m going back to working with tables. ![]()
DevKick
Really digging the typography and color of this new web design and development aggregation site by the man originally responsible for Stylegala. ![]()
CSS (in)Efficiency
Jim Barraud echoes unanswered questions about the performance of descendant selectors. ![]()
Read Image to Data Droplet for OS X
Convert Images to Base64 TextMate bundle
The page is in Catalan but the bundle is in English and pretty self-explanatory. Just drop the .tmCommand bundle file on TextMate. Then you can select some CSS or HTML that contains references to external images, hit Apple + control + B and they will be encoded as base64 and embedded with the data: protocol. Killer. Completely eliminates the need for that AppleScript droplet I was about to release. ![]()
Qualified Selectors in jQuery
John Resig with a simple two-line plugin for jQuery that maps the proposed qualified selector syntax to the similar and already implemented (in jQuery) :has selector. ![]()
The Highly Extensible CSS Interface
Cameron Moll’s first series of articles in three years looks to have been well worth the wait. Part One, The Foundation, is up now. ![]()
Predicting the Past
Two must-read articles in ALA’s latest, Beyond DOCTYPE and From Switches to Targets. Future-proofing never seemed so backward. ![]()