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Lightning fast Sass compiling with libsass, Node-sass and Grunt-sass 7 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. The bigger the Sass project you work on, the slower compilation of your Sass project can become. That's because ordinarily Sass is...
Test your Sass or CSS with the Chrome Developer Tools 19 Jul 2013 | 04:26 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. This is the ‘text version’ of the presentation I gave at the 2013 CSS Summit. If you’d rather just look at the slides, here’s a di...
Easier user interface development and responsive layouts using CSS tables 4 Jul 2013 | 03:07 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. For the best UI layouts, use tables Please forgive the (admittedly link bait) title. This post explains how you can use existing a...
Attempting to fix responsive SVGs in desktop Safari (and some WebKit browsers) 28 Jun 2013 | 02:24 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. Chrome and Firefox render inline SVGs in responsive designs fine. At the time of writing, Safari and some WebKit mobile browsers d...
Working with lists and @each loops in Sass with the index and nth function 28 May 2013 | 04:57 pm
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. In Chapter 8 of Sass and Compass for Designers the process of creating loops with an @each loop is covered. Part of the chapter de...
Selecting HTML5 id and class names that start with a number in CSS 15 Mar 2013 | 03:55 pm
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. Since HTML5 it’s been valid to start an HTML element ID with a number. For examaple . From an HTML perspective, that’s fine. Howev...
My second book – Sass and Compass for designers 12 Mar 2013 | 03:25 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. I’d like to tell you about my second book, ‘Sass and Compass for designers’. Update: 25th April 2013 – the book is now available f...
How to get the free Microsoft IE virtual machines installed on OS X 14 Feb 2013 | 02:31 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. At modern.ie, the Microsoft Internet Explorer team have made some free virtual machines available for testing IE10, 9, 8 and 7 (ev...
Tips for using SVGs in web projects 7 Feb 2013 | 03:35 am
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. SVG Notes A brief Twitter exchange with Adam Bradley (of Focal Point, CDN Connect and Foresight.js fame) prompted this post. SVGs ...
SVG backgrounds don’t zoom correctly in Internet Explorer 10 29 Jan 2013 | 02:17 pm
benfrain.com - blog of technology writer and web designer Ben Frain. Sadly this issue doesn’t have a solution (that I’m aware of). Seems that IE10 doesn’t render SVGs set as background elements in CS...
