Category Archives: css

Update on Google reader reading space

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Jj

This week Google launched its new top bar, which changed Google Reader’s DOM making the userContent rules I explained last month useless. Continue reading →

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Squeeze more readable space out of Google Reader’s new layout

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jj

I am not happy with the removal of Google Reader social features. I really enjoyed discovering new feeds following people.

Anyway, I don’t mind the new look but it leaves too little readable space. A couple of years ago I blogged about how to use Firefox’s userContent.css to optimize the layout. Continue reading →

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CSS3 gradients in Webkit

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jj

I’m just writing this to record a shorthand answer to a doubt I had. Old format Webkit gradients only support percentage color stops Recently, Webkit added support for standards CSS3 gradients, so your syntax will be the same for different … Continue reading →

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Magenta CSS

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jj

When setting a background color always set a foreground color Continue reading →

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Add ‘error’ class to widgets with errors in Django Forms

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Jj

Many times UI requires us to style differently widgets that have errors in a field instead or next to an error message. Django provides a nifty .errors attribute to tell if a field of form has errors but you can’t … Continue reading →

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Google reader on a Netbook

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jj

I got a Lenovo S10 some months ago, and like all netbooks it has a 1024x~600 resolution which is fine for most web browgins but it happens to be too short for some applications, one of them being Google Reader. … Continue reading →

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Browser Layout engine internals video

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Jj

Esta charla de David Baron explica cómo funciona el motor de CSS en los Rendering Engines, particularmente Gecko. Me parecio genial como explica cómo funcionan los selectores CSS y que tipo de sintaxis está optimizada y recomendaciones de como utilizarlos … Continue reading →

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La Sociedad Peruana de Computación

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Jj

La verdad no conozco mucho de esta sociedad, sólo me he enterado de ella por algunos links que contactos mios han puesto en Twitter notificando de algunos eventos. Me causó curiosidad conocer un poco más de qué trata esta “sociedad” … Continue reading →

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CSS sin C

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Jj

El único elemento al que se puede agregar atributos “id” o “class” es DIV Cada elemento debe ser estilado específicamente La hoja de estilos sólo asignará estilos a clases o elementos por ID, nunca a nombres de elementos Nunca se … Continue reading →

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Where does your web developing time go?

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Jj

Vía Patrick Logan

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