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The Little Manual of API Design
Insights into API design from Trolltech, makers of the QT libraries. Adding this to my to-read list. (PDF)
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
A grid generator for Blueprint CSS that lets you specify number of columns, column width, gutter width, and overall page width. It then generates the grids.css file in both normal and compressed versions, and a grid.png file for testing. Nicely done.
DOS ain't so bad after all ~ Authentic Boredom
Nice insight, but I love how web interfaces can add keyboard shortcuts. For example, I never miss my Mutt email client when Gmail has great support for keyboarding.
Cornerz 0.1
A rounded corner javascript using jQuery that uses Canvas/VML for rendering.
Breadcrumbs In Django With Templates – martin-geber.com
An interesting spin on generating breadcrumb navigation by using Django's template inheritance and the not widely known about "block.super" variable.
Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
Explains how browsers use doctype sniffing to switch the layout mode between the quirks mode and the standards mode.
Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing
How mozilla determines whether to use quirks mode based on doctype.
Ned Batchelder: October 2007
This article describes a relative URL scheme that's rarely used but can be a life saver for those static media items when switching between HTTP and HTTPS pages.
Web Design Practices | Home
A web presentation of Heidi Adkisson's Master's Thesis showing common web design practices and their frequency of occurrence.
Typography, Beyond the Font
Nice PDF slides of Jeff Croft's talk on typography. Lots of great stuff for web typography and happily very little about fonts.
Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL
Great CSS3 rant. It highlights a few types of things web developers and designers want to see were it not for the glacially moving W3C.
XRAY :: for web developers
I've haven't used this yet but any insight into IE6's box model rendering is a good thing.
Brandon Aaron » Background Iframe (bgiframe)
A nice jQuery plugin that solves the problem of select forms in IE6 bleeding through overlayed elements.
typogrify - Google Code
Nice set of typographical filters for Django.
Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS
Compresses and optimizes your CSS.
The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972
Interesting take on programming design patterns and how they highlight deficiencies of a language. Example on coding subroutines in assembly is a pattern that became part of the language concept in C.