Posts Tagged ‘HTML’
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Decoupling HTML From CSS
- April 20th, 2012
- 50 Comments
For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScript goes in another; HTML is left by itself, nice and clean. CSS Zen Garden proved that we ...
Read more...A New Front-End Methodology: BEM
- April 16th, 2012
- 58 Comments
This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for ...
Read more...Techniques For Overcoming Poor CSS Support In Email
- March 13th, 2012
- 5 Comments
Designing and developing emails can be challenging, especially if you start doing it after years of designing and developing websites. Unlike most Web browsers, email clients have not yet united in support of HTML email standards, resulting in poor CSS support for email. Inconsistent support for images in email clients ...
Read more...How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js
- November 21st, 2011
- 56 Comments
The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation. The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations ...
Read more...HTML5 Semantics
- November 18th, 2011
- 68 Comments
Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements ...
Read more...Pursuing Semantic Value
- November 12th, 2011
- 65 Comments
Disclaimer: This post by Jeremy Keith is one of the many reactions to our recent article on the pursuit of semantic value by Divya Manian. Both articles are published in the Opinion column section in which we provide active members of the community with the opportunity to share their ...
Read more...Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value
- November 11th, 2011
- 165 Comments
Update (November 12th 2011): Read a reply by Jeremy Keith to this article in which he strongly argues about the importance of pursuing semantic value and addresses issues discussed in the article as well as in the comments here on Smashing Magazine. Disclaimer: This article is published in the Opinion column ...
Read more...Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas
- August 30th, 2011
- 48 Comments
Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care about your visitors, then spend some time deciding between good-quality images that are bigger in size and poorer-quality images that ...
Read more...HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
- August 16th, 2011
- 70 Comments
By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is sectioning content: section, article, aside and nav. To understand sectioning content, we ...
Read more...The Neglected Necessities Of Design
- August 5th, 2011
- 26 Comments
Right now is an exciting time to be in the Web design community. Every month we seem to stumble on a new thought-provoking way to put our expanding tool set to use for our clients and the patrons of the Web. Many designers are chomping at the bit to litter ...
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