Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS
Peter Gasston
Boring bits of CSS are really not as boring as you might think; they’re quite useful, and they’ll most likely change the way you write CSS.
Issue #22
Towards A Retina Web
Reda Lemeden
Reda Lemeden will show you how to optimize your web for high resolution displays. This is an excellent overview of all techniques for achieving resolution independence.
Normalize.css v1.0.0. released
Nicolas GallagherIf you’re not using CSS reset as of yet, you should look into normalize.css. It makes browsers render all elements more consistently, in line with modern standards and it precisely targets only the styles that need normalizing.
Create Rich Web Typography With CSS3 & OpenType: Discretionary Ligatures & True Small Caps
Dudley StoreySupport of OpenType fonts in modern browsers means that we are finally able to control typographic details that make the difference between presenting content and communicating with type. An amazing article by Dudley Storey.
Sass v3.2.0 released
Release 3.2.0 of Sass brings us plenty of new (and awesome) features including passing content blocks to a Mixin, placeholder selectors, variable arguments, directive interpolation and more.
Extreme specificity overriding a CSS ID with 256 chained Classes
Ryan SeddonExtremely interesting article that reveals a little bit about how browsers work.
Recommended reading
Smashing Book #3: Redesign The Web
Whether you’re a designer, front-end developer or back-end developer, this book will be very, very useful for you.
It offers not only great insight into your area of expertise (whichever that may be), but also into all other development, design and even business areas related to web.
And even if you’re interested only (and strictly) in CSS, you’ll find enough of CSS juice in it to justify the price.
Go get it (if you still haven’t).
