An interesting blog post – Measuring and sizing UIs, 2011-style — over at CSS Wizardry provides up-to-date advice for CSS measurements. In a nutshell, the post advises web designers to abandon pixel values except in a few cases (like CSS-sprites), and use %, Rems, or ems. In particular it suggests: Use percentages for structural elements [...]
Links to useful HTML5 and CSS3 support charts and resources. Find out which browsers support which technologies.
CSS3 offers new cursor styles: SitePoint provides an interactive overview of the new (and old) cursor types.
The HTML5 <details> and <summary> elements look to solve a common problem and reduce the need for JavaScript. Check out this article: http://html5doctor.com/the-details-and-summary-elements/ (currently only works with Chrome.) Basically, you can create a box that you can open and close by clicking the <summary> tag: <details closed> <summary>Show/Hide me</summary> <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus [...]
Horray! Just got my copy of Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual from the printer. Should be at Amazon any day now: buy the book!!!!
