For the past two weeks I’ve been talking about css. How we might organize css files differently and whether or not some of our long held best practices aren’t as best as we thought. We might be able to improve things by reaching a little further into the development world and learning to make better use of abstraction in our design process.
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We’ve been using css as the presentation layer of web pages for quite some time. I’ve personally been using it for about 10 years and like many, much of my css practices were developed nearly as long ago. Is it time to change those practices?
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You’ve probably seen talk the last couple of weeks about browser makers moving to adopt the -webkit prefix in their non-WebKit browsers. Mozilla appears to be leading this move and the response from the developer community has been to strongly suggest this as a very bad thing.
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One of the ideas I always find myself coming back to is separating different aspects of design into layers. Typography on one layer, color on another, grids on yet another. By constraining all, but one layer, the unconstrained layer can be more deeply explored.
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When we combine movements (transforms) of inanimate objects over different timeframes (transitions) we get animation. CSS3 expands on what’s possible with transforms and transitions with the aptly named animations module and I’d like to spend some time today looking through that module.
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