Category: Front End
Pure CSS is not really that pure
It’s a popular thing lately: showcasing “pure CSS” pieces of code. Do a basic search for “pure CSS” on Codepen and you’ll see what I mean: examples of code that make clever use of CSS to give the impression there… Full article →
New site, responsive and all!
So here’s another new version of Senff.com, though you might not see many differences with the previous version. Looks a lot like it, really…but it is now officially buzzword compatible seeing that it is fully responsive. That’s right, resize that… Full article →
When front and back clash
The last time I wrote articles for print publications was about 15 years ago, for a Dutch magazine called WeBBer (“not for girls and parents“). But I’m back and going a little more serious/professional! Issue 232 of leading web development… Full article →
Montreal Front End Devs unite!
I’ve been a making web sites for more than 15 years, but ever since I started to become more active in the web development online community last year, I’ve been keeping an eye out for any meetups, conferences, workshops, seminars… Full article →
Getting started with Sass on Windows, the easy way
“I wanna try that Sass thing. But that Ruby stuff and command line is confusing! Also, I’m on Windows! I’m doomed to fail.” Made up your mind already and you want to get started with Sass on your Windows PC?… 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… Full article →
Capitalization in URLs
Earlier this weekend, web guru Faruk Ateş and I 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… 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.… Full article →