We had CSS1, and CSS2. We even had CSS2.1 and we then moved onto CSS3 – or did we? This post is a quick explanation of how CSS is versioned today. CSS versions 1 and 2 were monolithic specifications. All of CSS was included in one massive document. Selectors, positioning, colour – it was all … Why there is no CSS4 – explaining CSS Levels
As we head into the final quarter of 2016, it occurs to me that it is 20 years since I first started to build websites. There was a lot that was challenging in the early days of web design. However we took the few tools we had and created things. I was so excited by … The web is not print and other stories
Level 3 of the CSS Display Module is currently in Working Draft status, and in the current Editor’s Draft are a number of issues that require author feedback. In this post I will take a look at one new property that is defined in this module and that needs feedback – box-suppress . CSS Display … The proposed box-suppress property
Last November I posted to this blog about the three years I had spent experimenting with the Grid Layout specification It’s now over 6 months since that post, so I thought I would do a quick update. Major changes to the specification In November 2015 we had just seen the grid-column-gap and grid-row-gap properties make … CSS Grid updates, changes and state of the browsers
A few days ago my friend Jen Simmons pointed me to some images demonstrating the goals of the CSS Figures specification, asking if this could be built using Grid. Off the top of my head I said I thought it could be built using a currently impossible (given browser support) combination of Regions, Grid and … Thinking about page floats, figures, regions and grids
I enjoy teaching people about CSS and in particular CSS Layout, over the last year I’ve developed a course which, in entirety, is about two full days worth of material if taught in person. As there is only one of me, and I can only take on a finite number of in-person engagements each year … Creating an EPUB for Workshop Notes
Last week I spoke at ConfConf, a conference for conference organisers. I had been asked to speak about what speakers want, as a somewhat frequent speaker at technical conferences. I wasn’t really comfortable in making it 40 minutes about what I and my friends thought. At this point I’m not representative, and neither are many … What I Learned From Posting a Survey of Conference Speakers
I’ve spent more than three years trekking around the globe talking about CSS Grid Layout. Invariably while I’m on stage, someone will tweet something like, “well it sounds great – but it’s only implemented in Internet Explorer”. Where they get this information from is the Can I Use website, which correctly lists IE as the … Being where the people are
This is the second in a series of posts about the work I’m currently doing on the Perch CMS user Interface. You can read the first article introducing the issues we face here. The existing Perch UI has developed organically over the last few years. Our reference has been the original and updated UI designs … Rebuilding the Perch UI – creating a pattern library
We launched Perch CMS at the end of May 2009. Quite a lot has happened on the web since then, and Perch is still the choice of thousands of web designers building sites for their clients. The web has changed a lot and so has Perch. We now have a companion product for larger sites … Rebuilding the Perch UI – not your usual redesign