Issue #74

August 29, 2013

Headlines

CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is Faster on Mobile?

Peter McLachlan

Peter McLachlan has investigated the performance of data URIs on mobile in comparison to CSS Sprites. Results are quite interesting, and probably a bit surprising.

3D Shading with Box-Shadows

Nick Pettit

An awesome tutorial Nick Pettit about a technique that uses box shadows for creating a realistic shading effect on simple objects.

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Articles & Tutorials

Functional CSS (FCSS)

Matt Baker

Matt Baker explains how he applies functional programming principles to CSS in order to write more maintainable and scalable code.

Thinking Ahead: Native CSS Feature Detection

Guil Hernandez

Guil Hernandez goes through the basics of @supports rule, a rule that will make feature detection a lot easier and faster in a very near future.

Detecting CSS Style Support

Ryan Morr

Ryan Morr shows how to detect CSS style support using JavaScript (which is particularly useful for browsers that still don’t support @supports rule).

Scroll Overflow Menu

Hugo Darby-Brown

Hugo Darby-Brown explains how to create a horizontal scrolling navigation for touch devices, similar to that of the iOS taskbar.

Font Replacement Methods: Techniques for Web Fonts

Owen Oliver

A nice introduction to @font-face and @font-face services. (A friendly reminder: you really shouldn’t be using Cufón any longer.)

With a little help from pseudo-selectors

Robert Sedovšek

Robert Sedovšek looks at the not-so-known pseudo selectors and explains how they work and why you will find them useful.

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