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10 Years 7 May 2013 | 08:52 pm
Wow. It's finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today. The web has come a long way in the past decade. CSS3, HTML5, responsive web design, web fonts, a version of Internet Explorer that...
A New Number 1 2 Nov 2011 | 06:24 am
Take it with the usual grain of salt that should accompany any news of global browser trends, but, extrapolating out from the 2011 trend in StatCounter's Global Stats Chrome appears set to surpass IE ...
Serendipity 9 Mar 2011 | 06:46 pm
How does a photo of a fruit fly breeding chamber lead to the discovery of one's own lineage back to 14th century France? That's not a question I'd ever have thought to ask, but this evening I found an...
Free Icons 23 Feb 2011 | 01:15 pm
I've decided to slap a Creative Commons license on the entire darn Chalkwork Family and make them completely free for personal use, starting right now. I've been considering doing this for quite a wh...
Boilerplate 1 Feb 2011 | 12:25 pm
If you're not aware of it yet, HTML5 boilerplate is a fantastic starting point when creating a new site with its namesake markup language. But where Boilerplate focuses on basic document setup, exter...
SSD + Photoshop 2 Dec 2010 | 12:53 pm
I just got my first Mac with a solid state drive. If you've heard anything about SSD performance, you won't be surprised to hear that it's fast. How fast? Well, I filmed a video.
PaintbrushJS 8 Oct 2010 | 09:41 am
It occurs to me that I should finally mention here a project I've been working on over the past month or so. Much to my surprise, what started out as a simple foray into the canvas element's pixel man...
A CSS3 Tip 28 Jul 2010 | 10:38 am
I'm probably way behind the curve on this one, but I recently realized the following: All browsers that support the CSS text-shadow and box-shadow properties also support the new CSS3 RGBa syntax. Wh...
IE8 Still Failing PNG Alpha 21 May 2010 | 09:48 am
You thought our long nightmare of PNG alpha transparency support was finally over as of IE7, didn't you? Yeah, me too. Over the past few months I've been collaborating with Chris Glass on the newly-l...
Smaller PNGs 16 Apr 2010 | 05:23 pm
Last week I put together an animated infographic that required some flexibility. Alpha transparency was essential, but the number of images I needed to pull it off meant that my typical way of creatin...
