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Orientation Example - Using media queries to detect viewport orientation.Tags: CSS3; Layout; Tips;  A Simple CSS Drop-Cap - Using selectors to target the first character and first line of your text.Tags: CSS; Typography; Tips;  Resolution depen… more »

Review: London Web February: Mobile, SEO & the Business Aspects of Web Companies at Hoxton Apprentice, 16 Hoxton Square, London. N1 6NT. 19:30 to 21:30I'm finding my 'spare writing time' increasingly used up these days, more on that in a future p… more »

Building sites without using IDs or classes - An experiment: Laying out a page using only advanced selectors like nth-child.Tags: BlogPost; CSS3; Layout;  CSS generated content techniques - Opera Developer Community - Although CSS2 has limited suppo… more »

An essay on W3C's design principles - "Why doesn't HTML include tags for style? Why can't you put text inside SMIL? Why doesn't CSS include commands to transform a document? Why, in short, does W3C modularize its specification and why in this particular… more »

Review: LWS March: JavaScript – The events that get left behind & Pro-bunfighting at The Square Pig, 30 - 32 Procter Street, Holborn, London, WC1V 6NX 19:00 to 20:30I was at London Web Standards on Wednesday, this event was focussed on JavaScript… more »

The hgroup element | HTML5 Doctor - Understanding the difference between hgroup and header elements and the implications for the document outlining algorithm.Tags: BlogPost; HTML5;  codedread SVG Support Chart - A chart showing the levels of browser… more »

Why websites shouldn't accommodate disabled users | Because it's good - Don't accommodate disabled users as some sort of afterthough, design your website to be usable by everyone from the start.Tags: BlogPost; Accessibility; Usability;  Website desi… more »