Made up your mind already and you want to get started with SASS on Windows? Skip the chit-chat and jump to the 5-step section to install it right away. Or, well, read on….. Background Currently super hot in web development: CSS preprocessors. With a preprocessor, you will write your CSS … Read full article
My name is Mark Senff, a Dutch Front End Developer based in Montreal. I make web sites and other things digital/tech/online.
7 things I’ve learned this week
1) The idea that front-end developers are inferior to back-end developers was not just present at my previous company — it is also at my current job. I actually suspect it’s a standard thing in the entire web development world (except among front-end devs themselves). 2) Apparently I look a … Read full article
Opera to support -webkit- prefixes
So now it’s official: Opera will support a number of -webkit- prefixes. It’s supposedly “experimental”, but still. The reasoning for this is “[...] we have experienced that many authors of (especially mobile) sites only use -webkit- prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. … Read full article
Capitalization in URLs
Earlier this weekend, web guru Faruk Ateş had a micro-discussion about the pros and cons of using capitalization in URLs. Root cause was his tweet in which he asked people to stop this practice: “The people who still use capitalization in URLs: please, stop. You’re causing completely unnecessary friction to … Read full article
Zoom problems on iPad
(One of those problems that I keep running into. Now that I’ve found a supposed solution, I better write it down, at least posterity.) Every now and then when I create a site, I have this issue that messes up how things look on iPad (or iPhone, or iPod Touch… … Read full article
IE deserves more love
…or, at the very least, less hate. Here we are, on version 28 (or something) of Senff.com, mostly dedicated to front end development, and with the very first article I choose to write something positive about Internet Explorer. That’s right. I will make a case for this most hated piece … Read full article