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Issue #17

July 17, 2012

This is a seventeenth issue of the CSS Weekly, released on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. I kind of like the sound of that; it’s quite symbolic.

In other news, CSS Weekly got a proper archives page. All weekly issues are listed with quick summary of featured articles. I kind of hope that some of you will find it useful.

Anyhow, here it is, the best of CSS in the past week (or so).

OpenType features in web browsers

Gustavo Ferreira
OpenType features in web browsers

An overview of the current state of OpenType feature support in web browsers, based on the CSS syntax proposed by the latest draft of the CSS3 Fonts specification and the latest available version of each browser.

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Introduction to Sass

Alex Ball
Introduction to Sass

Keep an eye on the fresh new series on Developer Drive and learn everything you need to know about Sass.

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Coding Q&A With Chris Coyier: Code Smell And Type On A Grid

Coding Q&A With Chris Coyier: Code Smell And Type On A Grid

Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier talks about designing for email, type on a grid, centering and resets, opacity, border-radius on images and explains how you can easily spot bad CSS code. There’s (at least) a couple of really good advices in here.

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Quasi-qualified CSS selectors

Quasi-qualified CSS selectors

Harry Roberts

One really basic way to make your CSS much nicer to work with is to avoid (over) qualified selectors. That is to say, it’s better to write .nav{} than ul.nav{}. Simply put, don’t (over) qualify your selectors. Ever.

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Max CSS In Depth

Daniel Eden

Consider including unminified and fully commented CSS next to the minified version (you are minifying your stylesheets, aren’t you?). It can be very helpful for newcomers, since it will offer them a greater insight into your design and code choices.

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Using CSS Sprites to optimize your website for Retina Displays

Maykel Loomans

Start using sprites if you’re not using them already (and not just for high density display optimizations). You’ll save network requests and overall stylesheet file-size.

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One, Two, or Three

Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier explains how many CSS files should you use in different project situations.

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Until next week

Happy trails,
Zoran Jambor

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