Dear developers »
This is why I use Sass and Compass.
This is why I use Sass and Compass.
I’ll be the first to admit: I don’t really get how it all works. The standards process, the politics… I think I get the general idea, but that’s not really important. I know what vendor prefixes are for, and I’m tired of using them 4 times over with the same value. When 4 competitive companies/organizations use the same syntax for something, I’d call it a standard.
I realize you may have different criteria, but perhaps this could be considered, if only for “point” releases of the spec.
Sorry if I don’t really get it, still love you crazy cats.
Please don’t implement Webkit prefixes. The very idea is absurd, goes against the entire reason for having CSS prefixes, and makes me a sad panda. What happens if/when Webkit decides to change the implementation of -webkit-text-size-adjust? They’re completely in their right to do so, as it’s their recommendation. That’s why it has a -webkit in front of it.
If you want developers using more of your prefixes, then you probably need to offer more innovative specs, do a better job marketing your features, or simply gain more marketshare. We don’t throw -webkit in front of stuff because it’s fun, we do it to target the most powerful/prevalent mobile browsers, animate stuff (smoothly, ahem), or polish UI to show off for fellow Mac-loving, Webkit-using, designers.
Stealing prefixes is cheating and is going to screw up a nice little system. Please don’t.
Update: In case you aren’t familiar with the discussion, see here.
This week we were excited to announce the release of Sencha Animator.
Sencha Animator is a desktop application for Mac, Windows, and Linux that allows you to create CSS3 Animations for WebKit browsers with ease.
Be sure to check out the demos to see what has already been created with Sencha Animator, such as this amazing KickFu iPhone game, or the Museum of Science interactive ad.
You can try it out free for 30-days, so give it a go! Download Sencha Animator and see how easy it is to create something amazing today.
This was a great release last week, and I had a lot of fun talking about it at Adobe Max.
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
Typically I’m not a huge fan of development frameworks like this one, but digging into it there seems to be quite a few things to learn. Another framework worth looking into is the responsive Skeleton that comes from one of Twitter’s designers Dave Gamache (also on Tumblr).
Google has launched a new web fonts directory, with a way better font browser and (finally) search functionality. Though they still need a wider selection, I’m a big fan of Google Web Fonts because they’re free, easy to embed on a page, and offer downloadable versions of each font (to design with).
Excellent Compass extension from Jared Hardy that provides some fun text effects using text-shadow.
Lemonade is a simple Ruby gem that adds automatic sprite generation to Sass.
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