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by necolas 15y ago
This is just a bit of experimentation. Not something with any significant practical benefit. You just have to look at the code behind this - http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/demo/ - for confirmation that this is not a viable
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by necolas 15y ago
Good question. Even CSS resets undergo changes over time (Eric Meyer has adapted his reset several times). But resets are more limited in scope. Normalize.css includes things like: consistent `abbr`, `mark`, `svg` styles; improved `font-siz
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by necolas 15y ago
There's still a dedicated Mobile Boilerplate - https://github.com/shichuan/mobile-html5-boilerplate
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HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released(html5boilerplate.com)
267 points by necolas 15y ago|28 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
There is so much thought, and so many concerns, that go into CSS modules that I'm a little disappointed the article doesn't go into more detail about the problems it is looking to solve. A fundamental starting point seems to be that CSS gri
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by necolas 15y ago
Some of the "advice" in CSSLint _warnings_ isn't just about performance and smaller CSS files, it's about writing maintainable CSS and being able to produce reusable classes or components for the development team. Depending on the project,
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by necolas 15y ago
Yeah, as the opening paragraph of the article says, I did this just as 'an exercise in creative problem solving and working within constraints. This is not a "production ready" CSS icon set.' Hopefully it's clear that it's not being present
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by necolas 15y ago
Well, maybe incredible isn't the best word. There are so few of them and it makes piecing together the evolution of modern Great Apes (particular over the last 10 million years) particularly difficult [1]. Perhaps their habitat was not cond
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by necolas 15y ago
Contingency could well be involved. But it's not particularly easy to decide what constitutes a separate species, even with extant organisms. The categorisation of fossils into separate species is probably not as interesting or important as
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by necolas 15y ago
Teleology is something quite different. Not every period of evolution in a taxonomic branch is going to involve adaptive radiations. Although early human evolution is generally thought to have involved an adaptive radiation, by the time we
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by necolas 15y ago
It's interesting to note that the fossil record shows an apparent overall reduction in the morphological variety and number of hominans in the million years or so before present. When we talk about Homo ergaster and Homo erectus it does
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Dropp.us: a location-based message/photo-sharing iPhone app(dropp.us)
1 points by necolas 15y ago|1 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
Not that I've experienced. Good content, good incoming links, etc., seem to be far, far more important than whether you only use one h1 per page...and rightly so.
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by necolas 15y ago
This isn't a reset
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by necolas 15y ago
We both collaborate on this repo and much of it was pulled into Jonathan's original repo (which also contains some of his personal preferences and an additional metrics file).
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Normalize.css: An alternative to CSS resets(necolas.github.com)
173 points by necolas 15y ago|45 comments
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LinkedIn shares double to signal dotcom bubble 2.0(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by necolas 15y ago|0 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
While I think it's great that people are exploring many different solutions in this area, it's worth noting a drawback of the adapt.js approach. You're left dependent on JavaScript to do something that can be done with CSS in modern brows
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by necolas 16y ago
See how many times a URL has been tweeted on Twitter: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...
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by necolas 16y ago
Really impressive, but it's a shame that this is being labelled "CSS3" or "HTML5" when clearly it relies on a lot of JavaScript. It's a great example of weaving several front-end technologies together...and there should be nothing wrong wit
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by necolas 16y ago
This article leaves me none the wiser as to what connect.me is. Perhaps 20k people are concerned with reserving their username on any service that springs up...whether or not it's clear what the service is.
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by necolas 16y ago
I don't see where I said Firefox's existing fragmentation was bad. I responded to the claim that "Almost all users of Firefox and Chrome are using the most up-to-date versions of those browsers". The stats you posted show that this is not t
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by necolas 16y ago
It's presumptuous to say that this is the case for Firefox users. The fact that Firefox requires manual agreement to update means there is fragmentation. Faster updates will only increase that unless it is accompanied by automatic, invisibl
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by necolas 16y ago
Previous discussions about JsFiddle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125230 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125200
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It's Time for Server-Side Browsers(camendesign.com)
47 points by necolas 16y ago|43 comments
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by necolas 16y ago
I think I heard that a "build custom download" tool is planned. In the meantime, a basic version might suit some of your needs: http://initializr.com
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by necolas 16y ago
The tone of the article was surprising. The alternative boilerplate is far too simple to cut it as a boilerplate for people building even the most modestly sized sites. It certainly doesn't cater to the majority of professionals in the way
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Simple HTML5 video player with Flash fallback and custom controls(dev.opera.com)
8 points by necolas 16y ago|0 comments
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by necolas 16y ago
When was the last time Microsoft automatically updated IE to patch CSS bugs or add new implementations? Never, I believe. Chrome is patching bugs and adding new implementations pretty much every 6 weeks. It's a shame that Microsoft haven't
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by necolas 16y ago
The elephant in the room is Google Chrome. Both IE9 and Firefox 4 (I think) lack Chrome's automatic updates. They simply cannot bring new features and bug fixes to users as quickly as Chrome can. You can spend 1-2 years working on a major r

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