Contents tagged with CSS
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Are we done with icon fonts yet?
It seemed like a good idea at the time: wingdings for the web, collections of vector glyphs that are easy to include in your pages. Except that a web page is not a Word document. Now that SVG is properly supported by all half-decent browsers (you don’t have to support browsers and OS’s that Microsoft won’t, do you?), why are we still using icon fonts? Let’s recap.
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Getting started with custom themes in Orchard
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Even better customizability in Orchard
One of our goals in
Orchard is to
make it possible and simple to change and customize the
markup and style for everything that gets rendered by
the application and its modules. Of course, this is made
a lot trickier by our other big requirement of making
everything a composition of atomic parts.
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Building my new blog with Orchard – Part 3: one way to skin a cat
These last few weeks I’ve been refraining from
starting any deep work on
my new Orchard-powered blog
because most of what I had in mind involved widgets,
which are being built right now. Version 0.8 is just
around the corner: the team is just putting the final
touches to the new theme engine and to the widget
system.
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Orchard team looking for a new developer
My team is looking for a new full-time developer. The
project is to build a completely new open-source CMS
based on ASP.NET MVC 2. It’s a lot of fun :)
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querySelectorAll on old IE versions: something that doesn’t work
In today’s post, I’m going to show an interesting
technique to solve a problem and then I will tear it to
pieces and explain why it is actually useless. I believe
that negative results should also be published so that
we can save other people from wasting time trying the
same thing. So here goes…
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Glimmer: visually build jQuery animations and stuff
If you’re still intimidated by jQuery or DOM
manipulation in general, if you need to quickly build
web animations, if you’re more a designer guy, if you
think tooling makes sense, or a combination of the
above, you should probably check out
Glimmer.
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CSS isolation: there has got to be a better way
CSS can be a tricky thing. I’m trying to do something
that I think should be pretty simple. Let’s say a page
contains a section (e.g. an admin panel) that must be
styled independently from the rest of the page, but
consistently and predictably. The DOM and CSS for the
main part of the page is undetermined (e.g. because it’s
part of a user-defined theme). Of course, you could use
iframes, which are about the only isolation mechanism in
HTML but we can’t do this here because iframes are quite
rigid in shape (they are rectangles), they make
scripting the DOM more difficult and they pretty much
require an additional round-trip to the server to serve
their contents.