CSS Best Practice #1: Reset CSS
I think resetting browser styles is important. You’ll never know what you’re dealing with. If all the browsers start on the same page it will make your life easier because you’ll know what to expect. I personally use Eric Meyer’s Reset CSS as a base and modify it as needed.
CSS Best Practices: Index
I’ve decided to create an index of all the CSS best practices in this post that will be updated when I add a new best practice. It should be easier for you to keep track of everything. Please bear with me while I get things together.
Limitations of CSS Files in IE
If you didn’t know already, IE puts a limit on stylesheet file sizes to cap off at 288Kb. Another limitation I learned from Martin Ivanov’s post is that IE limits the number of stylesheets loaded via link tag or @import to 32 files. Make use of compression and minification if you’ve got large files and [...]
Dustin Diaz on DocTypes
I just had to share this one with you as soon as I read it. Dustin Diaz shows us a way of declaring a doctype, that puts the browser is standards mode. Thought it won’t validate, which he explains: There is really, absolutely no reason you need the rest of the doctype in your declaration [...]
Clientcide: New Form Validators and Documented Beta Code
Aaron Newton has released some new form validators (with help from contributor Chafik Barbar) and documentation for his beta code. Everyone has to deal with form validators one way or another. I’ve posted on one from MooTools.Floor, but this is a different way of doing things.
JxLib, a MooTools Javascript UI Library
From Paul Spencer and team comes a UI library built from MooTools. After taking a look at the examples, I have to say it is very impressive work.
Run Javascript Functions Without using ‘domready’ Event
I don’t really like using the ‘domready’ event. The idea of adding another event to the window object just bugs me. So here’s the alternative. In short, an array is created, functions you want to run are added to the array, and when the page reaches the bottom the functions in the array are run.
Don’t Pollute the Global Space; Namespace It!
I like to namespace my code with object literals to contain all my functions and classes. It keeps things organized, decreases global space pollution from additional functions, and prevents conflicts with third-party scripts. It’s very easy to extend too.
Get Around Form submit() Mapping
If you’ve had to use javascript to submit a form, you may have used the forms submit() method. You may also experienced difficulty, such as a “submit is not a function” error. It has to deal with mapping and I’ve got a very simple solution.
Jon Tan shows how to get @font-face to work on IE
If you’ve designed a website or built one based off of a designer’s vision, you’ll understand the frustration when they don’t want to use a common font and you have to explain why they should. There are a bunch of options of course, like sIFR and CSS image replacement. sIFR requires Flash and javascript, while [...]