learning to love html and css
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The document discusses learning to love HTML for web development. It suggests falling in love with HTML for what it offers as a structured content format rather than focusing on design or logic. It recommends avoiding code smells and instead focusing on clean HTML code that is flexible and machine readable. The document also provides advice for "marriage counseling" such as using HTML as an API, progressive enhancement techniques, and focusing on structured documents rather than pixel perfection.
learning to love html and css
- 1. learning to love html (for grumpy developers) @jongalloway
- 3. why? falling in love the honeymoon marriage counseling
- 5. falling in love what does a document offer? structured content not design not logic
- 6. why? its what we share with designers with our users the only code you write that the world sees
- 7. falling in love avoiding the cheap floozy code smells difficult to maintain trapped supporting browsers (and versions) reliance on grids / frameworks / tools
- 8. falling in love love it for what it is a document format
- 9. falling in love document vs. application tools developers but you deliver documents
- 10. true love html
- 11. the honeymoon joy! clean code (occupy your codebase!)
- 12. the honeymoon joy! clean code is flexible (story time)
- 17. the honeymoon joy! seo: a structured document is machine readable
- 18. the honeymoon clear communication semantic markup is easier, cleaner asp.net templates
- 19. the honeymoon selectors get so easy! css jquery testing $('section.mentions header img').hide()
- 21. marriage counseling your html as an api separation of concerns smoothly factored pieces agree
- 22. marriage counseling browsers stop fixating on browsers you are not your browser your browser doesnt matter to users land of a thousand browsers common ground resets? okay normalize is better! http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/
- 23. marriage counseling progressive enhancement build for your main use case enhance using feature detection
- 24. marriage counseling progressive enhancement shim for downlevel modernizr conditional comments content fallback
- 25. marrige counseling lets talk ie quirks mode! (watch doctype)
- 26. marrige counseling lets talk ie developer tools document mode (rendering) browser mode (requesting)
- 27. marriage counseling pixel hell users dont count pixels
- 28. marriage counseling pixel hell avoiding pixel hell get there first get out of mockup mode photoshop is not a web standard
- 29. marriage counseling positioning and layout floats http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
- 30. marriage counseling positioning and layout floats float one way
- 31. marriage counseling positioning and layout padding / margins use developer tools use page inspector
- 32. marriage counseling focus on a structured document start with an outline like writing keep things structured refactor (?!)
- 33. learning to love html (for grumpy developers) @jongalloway