-webkit-tap-highlight-color This webkit only CSS property is available on mobile Safari in both iOS and Android. It allows you to override the yellow highlight colour when a user taps a link or JavaScript clickable element.  This is a useful accessibility feature that lets users know a link... [More]

A first look at Visual Studio 2010 SP1 from a front end developer perspective. [More]

  Yesterday the W3C unveiled their logo for HTMl5 to a largely mixed response. To some it was nice to now have a visual reference point for HTML5, to others it was met with a chorus of groans. The W3C seemingly lumped CSS3 in with HTML5. What were they thinking?  Clearly... [More]

A while back the Webkit team introduced a (non spec as of writing) CSS property for adjusting the text size. This was to allow 'control [over] the text size that Safari on iOS uses when rendering a block of text', especially with double-tap zooming. By default this is set to none on the iPad and a... [More]

Really nice to see some CSS3 on the Transport for London (TfL) site. This is a great example to show that CSS3 can be added to high profile sites to enhance, but not hinder, the user experience and design. It doesn't have to look exactly the same in every browser   This is a screenshot of ... [More]

Everyone likes a reset and no site is complete without one.  So why another one? Everyone has their favourite, be it Eric Meyer's (which heavily influenced mine) or Yahoos! A common criticism of these resets is that they often go too far and aren’t suited to CMS driven sites. As HT... [More]

Inspire the web with just 10K. The team behind An Event Apart have started a contest to showcase new features in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Find out more at 10k.aneventapart.com/

Wipes the floor on Chrome.  http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBrowsing/Default.htm         Microsoft have put up their latest IE9 platform preview, where they have some nice examples of hardware accelerated graphics (the reason why the browse... [More]

  A presentation of new features in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.    View the slides   This is a demonstration of new features in modern browsers. It doesn't cover too deeply the new (and really nice) html elements but focuses on the new tools in CSS3 and JavaScript that we can ... [More]