Stylebot introduces social stylesheet sharing
Since we first covered Stylebot a few months back, I’ve been using it every day to bend web pages to my will. GitHub gets a healthy dose of Menlo on all code blocks and my TeuxDeux list seems a bit...
View Articlecompass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
Compass delivers powerful features on top of Sass including support for CSS3 and image sprites. With Compass-Magick, Stan Angeloff pushes the envelope a bit and adds the power of ImageMagick (via...
View Articlerack-pagespeed: Rack middleware for page speed optimization
Thanks to work by Google and Yahoo, we’re all better informed about how to speed up our web pages. For those on Apache, Google has made it easier to implement these ideas at the Apache Module level....
View ArticleEpisode 0.5.3 – Formalize and News Roundup Design Edition with Nathan Smith
Episode 0.5.3 – Formalize and News Roundup Design Edition with Nathan Smith Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on...
View ArticleAdapt.js: More efficient responsive design
As the mobile space continues to grow, there has been a growing interest in Responsive Web Design, making use of CSS media queries to selectively target device screen size and layout orientation in CSS...
View ArticleSass 3.1 released, now with functions, lists, and @media bubbling
Sass continues to provide innovative new ways to DRY up our CSS. Version 3.1 is out and offers many new language features, compilation performance improvements, and some new command line options. Sass,...
View Articlescrollability: Native scrolling for the mobile web
Perhaps even more than advanced features like GPS, camera access, contacts, and App stores, the lack of viewport-aware position:fixed is what drives many apps to be developed as a native experience....
View ArticleAssetHat: Load your CSS and JS faster. Your assets are covered.
Ron DeVera reached out to us a few weeks back to let us know about a new project he’s working on at Mint Digital called AssetHat. AssetHat is a Rails gem that hopes to make the web a little bit...
View ArticleCSS1K: A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1k of CSS
CSS isn’t a subject we cover too often here on The Changelog. Most often, we are talking about Sass (drink!), Compass, Stylus, Less or some other blend of “pre-processor” we, fan boys, love to cover....
View ArticleZurb Foundation – Design scaffold for your web app
The talented team at Zurb has released Foundation, a design scaffold for building web applications. Much like HTML5 Boilerplate, Foundation comes with some sensible markup defaults, however it goes...
View ArticleEpisode 0.7.0 – Foundation and other Zurb goodies
Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground. Items mentioned in the show: Jonathan Smiley –...
View ArticleCassette – Web asset manager for .NET with support for Less and CoffeeScript
Asset packaging is a hot topic these days. Andrew Davey brings the fun to .NET with Cassette, an asset bundler for .NET web apps. Much like Jammit or Sprockets for Ruby apps, Cassette concatenates,...
View ArticlePhoton – CSS 3D Lighting Engine
Tom Giannattasio authored a very powerful lighting engine using JavaScript and CSS3, and it is very easy to use – Photon. There are three basic concepts in Photon: Photon.Light (A point in 3D space...
View ArticleHolmes – CSS based error detection, watson.
A unique take on HTML ‘validation’, Luke Williams has made finding erroneous markup elementary. It’s a two step process: add the stylesheet to your markup, and add the following class to the...
View ArticleNodefront – Node.js-powered rapid front-end development utility
Nodefront from Karthik Viswanathan aims to make a front-end developer’s life easier. Built in Node.js, Nodefront bundles a local web server for serving up HTML, CSS, and JavaScript assets and supports...
View ArticleThe Good Man experiments with basic CSS3 animations
From the readme: This project is about experimentations. About CSS3 animations and a graduation project. My name is Pedro Ivo Hudson and this is my debut. And what a debut. Wow, I’m impressed. Check it...
View ArticlegradientD is a CSS3 Gradient Designer using Dojo
Tom Pryor: I wanted to try out Dojo’s new AMD pattern, as well as widigtize (finally) the gradient code spagetti I am currently using in my CSS3 Button Tool (Beta) and I finally got some time to play...
View ArticleUnsemantic, Nathan Smith’s fluid grid successor to 960.gs
From the homepage: Unsemantic is a fluid grid system that is the successor to the 960 Grid System. It works in a similar way, but instead of being a set number of columns, it’s entirely based on...
View Articlehint.css makes pure CSS tooltips too easy
From the hint.css homepage: hint.css is written as a pure CSS tooltip library which you can use to create cool tooltips for your site. It does not rely on JavaScript, but instead uses data-* attribute,...
View ArticleCustom user styles that simplify the UI and focus on the content of popular...
While recording The Industry Radio Show one of our listeners linked out to these custom user styles from Connor Sears, a Product Designer at Pinterest. If you caught our original post on Stylebot a...
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