Baldur Bjarnason
“Adactio: Links—The Thing With Leading in CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” adactio.com/links/17347
An excellent explanation of the new leading-trim and text-edge properties in CSS, complete with an in-depth history of leading in typography.
(I’m very happy to finally have a permanent link to point to about this, rather than a post on Ev’s blog.)
“Adactio: Links—The Thing With Leading in CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” adactio.com/links/17347
Think you know about styling lists with CSS? Think again!
This is just a taste of the kind of in-depth knowledge that Rich will be beaming directly into our brains at Web Day Out…
Some neat CSS from Tess that’s a great example of progressive enhancement; these book covers look good in all browsers, but they look even better in some.
You might not need (much) JavaScript for these common interface patterns.
While we all love the power and flexibility JS provides, we should also respect it, and our users, by limiting its use to only what it needs to do.
Yes! Client-side JavaScript should do what only client-side JavaScript can do.
So instead of asking yourself, “How can I write code that does what I want?” Consider asking yourself, “Can I write code that ties together things the browser already does to accomplish what I want (or close enough to it)?”
Every one of these five proposals is worth a vote.
Mind you, Rich’s cynicism is understandable.
How to make the distance of link underlines proportional to the line height of the text.
Make your links beautiful and accessible.
A redesign with modern CSS.
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
A little fix for Safari.