Archive: September 29th, 2016

Napoletana.

Napoletana.

Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units | CSS-Tricks

A thorough and compelling demonstration of why it makes sense to size all the properties of your components—font size, margins, borders, etc.—in ems or rems rather than mixing in pixels for some properties. It’s all about the scalability, innit?

Grid layout is a much needed step-change for CSS | Matt Hinchliffe, Front-End Developer

This is not only a really good explanation of CSS grid layout, it’s also a practical walkthrough, recreating the layout of the Financial Times. I think if I followed along at home, writing the markup and CSS outlined here, it would me to get this stuff “clicking” in my brain.

Passed by a second-hand book stall on the way into work. My defences were down. Not a bad haul for a fiver.

Passed by a second-hand book stall on the way into work. My defences were down.

Not a bad haul for a fiver.