Sarah Parmenter with some good honest thoughts about the popular idea of designing in the browser.

I’ve tried, goodness knows I’ve tried, but my designs end up suffering, looking boxy, bland and uninspiring.

Not that I’m that great of a designer but I feel the same way. I have to start in Photoshop to get anything decent looking. I try to get out it as soon as possible, but once I’m into the HTML/CSS my brain is in a more …

I can’t design in the browser is a post from CSS-Tricks

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This week Dave and I were joined by Zoey Gillenwater and we chat about print stylesheets, CSS formatting, icon fonts, spec mysteries, and much more.

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ShopTalk Episode 6 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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I’ll be representin’ Wufoo at a bunch of BarCamps again this year. Super fun. We need to figure out exactly what (U.S.) cities we are going to go to this year, so if you are organizing one, hit us up at the form on the site.

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BarCamp Tour 2012 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Jeffrey Way, Dave and I talk shop about some newly released projects, -webkit-gate, and our weekly staple of Q&A.

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ShopTalk Episode 5 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it’s experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that property. Unfortunately at this point, even if you could get all the browsers on board, you’d need to use this and vendor prefixes to get deep support, which makes the problem worse. What we really need is for all browsers to implement auto-updating so eventually “supporting older …

A proposal to drop browser vendor prefixes is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what’s new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF), and more. It’s a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers. New print copies are on order and will be available soon.

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Digging Into WordPress 3.3 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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A very serious not at all tongue-in-cheek gallery of CSS3 techniques that poo-poos the fancy in favor of the practical.

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Real-World CSS is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Paul Irish suggests the universal selector (*) to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I’ve been wanting to try this forever because this box model is, in my opinion, just better. Imagine: elements with percentage widths and pixel padding without worry.

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Better Box Sizing is a post from CSS-Tricks

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…is now a stable release. It’s notable because it’s the first release with it’s own built in developer tools (video overview). It’s all HTML/CSS for now (not a Firebug replacement) but they are nicely designed and a great first step for a product that really should be in-house. Also, CSS 3D transforms! After you’ve upgraded, check out this demo using -moz-element and the just-now-supported 3D transforms.

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Firefox 10 is a post from CSS-Tricks

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