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New Poll: Is There a Line Between Web Apps and Web Sites?

Every once in a while I’ll hear people say something along the lines of “well that’s for web sites, but it’s not really relevant for web apps.” That implies there is some kind of line that separates the two. Different needs and rules that change the game and alter the conversation around them. Is it true?

The new poll up in the sidebar asks this question:

Is it useful to distinguish between “web apps” and “web sites”?

I’m asking in …


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Poll Results: Off Screen Navigation Use on Mobile/Desktop

The results are in! Nearly 5,000 voters weighed in on the last poll to decide if the off-screen “drawer” navigation style that has swept mobile design is appropriate for larger screen (“desktop”) designs. You could answer:

  • It’s not good on any site.
  • It can be good on any site.
  • It’s good for mobile sites, but not desktop sites.

Only 10% of you were of the opinion that the off-screen nav isn’t a good idea on any design. So the vast …


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New Poll: Does Offscreen / Drawer Nav Work for Desktop Too?

A reader wrote in with this question:

We know that slide out menus are good for mobile (Facebook, Gmail, etc) But do you think they are appropriate for desktop web applications?

Good question. You know the type:

Certainly we can replicate this design pattern on desktop sites. But should we? Does it make sense? Didn’t this pattern evolve simply because nav can be very space consuming and, while we have plenty on desktop, don’t have enough on mobile? Does the …


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Poll Results: Light-on-Dark is Preferred

This poll asked people if they like their code editor colors “dark code on light background” or “light code on dark background.” Turns out about 2/3 of people prefer light code on dark background.

For the first several days after the Poll ran, light-on-dark was winning by a landslide with 90 or more percent. But over the last month, it has settled into 63% of people preferring it and 37% preferring dark-on-light.

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New Poll: alt Text Usage

Alt text has come up a bunch of times for me recently. One reader wrote to me asking if people really use them anymore. He does and said “I feel alone in carrying out the good fight.” ALA posted a reminder about when using alt text is unnecessarily repetitive. I ran across this flowchart in the comments there. The A11Y Project has a tip page on them. So I figured it would make for a good poll this round. …

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New Poll: Version Control Usage

New poll up in the sidebar. The question is about version control and asking you to pick the situation that best describes you. I just think it would be interesting to get a sense of what CSS-Tricks readers usage levels are like when it comes to version control.

This will be agnostic in which specific version control technology you use.…

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New Poll: Do you listen to music while you work?

Just a fun little poll to start a conversation about music and working. I know people firmly on either side of this poll: those that never ever listen to anything and those that can’t work without it.

Where do you land? (Poll in the sidebar)-
And as an extension for the comment thread: how do you do it when you do? iTunes? a web service? Stereo elsewhere in the room not even connected to your computer? IN-HOUSE MARIACHI BAND?…

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Poll Results: How do you order your CSS properties?

Over 10,000 people have spoken: the most popular way to order CSS properties is grouped by type.

This is how the votes broke down:

Grouped by type (45%) was fairly closely followed up by Randomly (39%). Much less popular was Alphabetic (14%) and only a few folks using Line length (2%).

For the record, Grouped by type would be like this (heavily borrowed from Nicolas Gallagher’s Idiomatic CSS):

.selector {
/* Positioning */
position: absolute;
z-index: 10;
top: …

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New Poll: How do you order your CSS properties?

Tossed up a new poll (in the sidebar of the site, RSS folks) about how you order your CSS properties. For example:

Random
.module {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
width: 25%;
padding: 20px;
position: relative;
min-height: 100px;
z-index: 1;
border-radius: 20px;
}

Alphabetical
.module {
border-radius: 20px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
min-height: 100px;
padding: 20px;
position: relative;
width: 25%;
z-index: 1;
}

Grouped by Type
.module {
width: 25%;
min-height: 100px;
padding: 20px;

border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 20px;

position: …

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Poll Results: Popularity of CSS Preprocessors

A few months ago we started this poll about CSS preprocessor syntax. It generated quite a discussion and nearly 13,000 responses. Let’s wrap it up by looking at the collected data.

I put it all into this chart:

Full size. Fonts: Hoefler Text, Idlewild, Chartwell

Consider the rest of this article the ALT text for that image. Of the near 13,000 responses, the breakdown was like this:

Sass 5%
Scss 13%
LESS 23%
Stylus 3%
I don’t

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