In recent weeks I’ve been looking a lot at css. I’ve looked at abstracting css, changing best practices and how to make our css more modular and scalable. In many of these posts I’ve alluded to css preprocessors and it’s time we start talking about them.
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How To Develop Scalable And Maintainable CSS
Last weekend I came across more ideas about our changing css best practices, specifically a presentation by Andy Hume and an article from Nicolas Gallagher, both of which offer additional thoughts to what I’ve been talking about these last few weeks.
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How Should You Format Your CSS?
Does it matter how you format and organize your css? Are there compelling reasons to writing single line css as opposed to multi-line css? Or in the end is it all a matter of personal choice?
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An Introduction To SMACSS Guidelines For Writing CSS
In recent weeks I’ve been discussing ideas and approaches to writing css. I’ve looked at abstracting css and talked in some detail about Object Oriented CSS. If classic css sits on one side of an approach to writing css and OOCSS sits on the other, SMACSS sits somewhere in the middle.
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The 2 Principles Of Object Oriented CSS
Do our current css practices scale? Are our stylesheets easy to maintain? Can non-css coders quickly and easily to build new web pages with our styles? Object oriented css (OOCSS) is an approach to writing html and css that allows us to answer yes to each of these questions.
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