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Issue #74

August 29, 2013

Headlines

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

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

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
3D Shading with Box-Shadows

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)

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

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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Until next week

Happy coding,
Zoran Jambor

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