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Issue #95

January 27, 2014

CSS Regions Matter

Sara Soueidan
CSS Regions Matter

Sara Soueidan goes over some useful examples of use cases for CSS Regions, highlights some of the challenges that we may face when using CSS Regions, and talks about possible solutions to common CSS Regions problems.

Working With LESS and the Chrome DevTools

Umar Hansa
Working With LESS and the Chrome DevTools

Umar Hansa explains how to effectively use  LESS with Chrome’s DevTools. He explains how to generate Source Maps, how to debug code, and how to use Workspaces and Grunt with LESS.

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Articles & Tutorials

Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts

Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts

Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman explains in detail how to best implement icon fonts in a universally accessible way.

Thought Process of a Front End Problem

Thought Process of a Front End Problem

Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier shares his thought process of debugging a supposedly simple front-end issue. The story nicely shows the challenges and struggles front-end developers face every day.

Using CSS Regions in Responsive Designs

Brian Rinaldi

Brian Rinaldi demonstrates that CSS Regions can easily be used in responsive layouts.

We spent a week making Trello boards load extremely fast. Here’s how we did it.

Bobby Grace

Bobby Grace shares his experience of  reducing perceived rendering time for Trello boards. His advice is to look for excessive paints and layouts and to use Chrome DevTool’s Timeline to find trouble areas.

What’s with putting the CSS in the head?

Aqeel

An interesting look into the practice of placing CSS within the head of a HTML page vs external CSS file and how it affects page performance.

Jobs

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Tools

extractCSS

extractCSS is an online tool which can extract ids, classes and inline styles from HTML document and output them as CSS stylesheet.

SVGMagic

SVGMagic is a simple jQuery plugin that searches for SVG images (including background-images) on your website and creates PNG fallbacks if the browser doesn’t support SVG.

Inspiration

CSS Art

Afra Noubarzadeh
CSS Art

Afra Noubarzadeh created a really beautiful artwork by using only circles in CSS and HTML. The artwork is 132 kB big and 1094 rows long. Quite impressive.

Until next week

Happy coding,
Zoran Jambor

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