This Week in Web Tech #11
Each week we post links about design and web technology to our Twitter feed. Once a week we round those links up into an epic blog post we like to call This Week in Web Tech.
Another week, another TWiWT! Today I'm subbing for anchor Michael Bleigh.
- Learn about the five types of CSS rules from the creator of SMACSS, Jonathan Snook.
- Sweep the sleaze! iA says remove those "Tweet" and "Like" buttons.
- Opinion: It's Not All Doom and Gloom on the Web. More good times ahead of us!
- In case you didn't know, VideoJS is one awesome (and open source) HTML5 video player.
- Microsoft announced TypeScript, a language for application-scale JavaScript development that compiles to JavaScript like CoffeeScript.
- A Crash Course in Information & Visual Design. Required reading for design fundamentals!
- Mobile is encouraging a more minimal approach to user interface design.
- 50 Free Web-Based Apps and Tools for Web Developers from 2012
- UI/UX and Subjectivity: The difference between the newbies and the pros.
- CSScomb: Groom and sort your CSS properties quickly.
- Just another fad: Don't use automatic image sliders or carousels!
- HTML5 APIs you didn't know existed like ContextMenu, datasets, and autofocus.
- Get started with CSS custom filters by checking out these neat examples.
- Save time with 10 Useful JavaScript Snippets. Check out #3!
- Custom Drop-Down List Styling via Codrops.
- Microsoft.com goes responsive. Learn about the process.
- * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW
- Give your checkboxes and radio buttons an extreme makeover with prettyCheckable
- Come at me bro! Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap
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