The base set of elements to have a valid HTML5 document.
“Design should not dominate things. And not dominate people. It should help people. That’s what’s important.” — Dieter Rams
It is recommended that the reference pixel be the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm’s length. —CSS 2.1
Improve rendering of kerning pairs and ligatures by using text-rendering: optimizeLegibility
Reblogged from WebKitBits
Original: Jay Robinson
Louis Harboe has recreated the iOS4 icons in Pure CSS. These are incredible, and totally resolution independent. (via jayrobinson)
Amazing.
An Objective-C wrapper that provides a set of common image processing tasks along with conversion to and from UIImage.
One point does not necessarily correspond to one pixel on the screen. —A very important reminder in the Apple Developer Documentation
A more appropriate analogy would be two boxes of crayons, each having let’s say 64 crayons for simplification. AdobeRGB’s box of crayons includes a larger variety of colors, including some neat ones like neon green that aren’t in the sRGB box. But with the sRGB box, you get more variations in it’s colors such as red, light-red, light-light-red, medium-light-red, etc., which aren’t all present in Adobe’s box of crayons. —Should I Shoot in the Adobe RGB or sRGB Color Space?
Reblogged from HTML5 Watch
Original: HTML5 Watch
Nicholas Gallagher:
This is an experiment that creates social media icons using CSS and semantic HTML. It uses progressive enhancement to turn an unordered list of text links into a set of icons without the use of images or JavaScript.
It bears repeating that the point of experiments like this isn’t to replace logos with CSS, but to show that fairly complex designs can be made in CSS - and you’ll need that sooner or later.
A similar, and more useful, demo: CSS speech bubbles.
RED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they’ll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of…
Add a custom dictionary to make it super easy to lookup Rails documentation with ctrl+⌘+D.
