*HTML/CSS Intro to the Google WebFont Loader and how to avoid @font-face text flickering
Submitted by matt 1 day ago (more from position-absolute.com)@font-face suffers of the same illness that its predecessors, until the font file is loaded it will display your text with the fallback font family. I will be showing how you can use the google font loader to avoid text flickering and have a good fallback font in case the font file is not loading. You get the best of all world, but it comes with a price of a light javascript hack.
*Programming MediaElement.js - HTML5 video player in CSS with Silverlight and Flash fallbacks
Submitted by matt 1 day ago (more from mediaelementjs.com)A JavaScript library to embed video in HTML5 formats with fallback in Silverlight or Flash.
*HTML/CSS Running your web applications offline with HTML5 AppCache
Submitted by matt 1 day ago (more from dev.opera.com)With the introduction of the W3C HTML5 application cache feature, it is possible to make your web applications run offline as well as online. This is where HTML5's new offline storage comes in. It defines a way to store files in a cache, so that when the user is offline, the browser still has access to the necessary files. These can be HTML, CSS or JavaScript files, or any other assets.
*HTML/CSS Unicorn - W3C's Unified Validator
Submitted by matt 3 days ago (more from validator.w3.org)A one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator, mobileOk checker, and Feed validator, which remain available as individual services as well.
*Usability Naview - Create easier navigations through prototyping and testing
Submitted by matt 3 days ago (more from naviewapp.com)A navigation preview tool for rapid information architecture prototyping. It helps information architects design, visualize, test and revise navigational structures quickly and efficiently. Create drop down menus without any coding, interactively review and modify your navigation, import taxonomy easily from spreadsheet or text file
*Design User Interface Design Framework
Submitted by matt 4 days ago (more from webalys.com)A flexible GUI elements library for Illustrator. Design faster wireframes and create better mockup deliverables in Illustrator. Design usable application interface with hundreds of common GUI elements: just drop them from Illustrator Panels or pick them in the library files.
*Design Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library
Submitted by matt 4 days ago (more from patterns.endeca.com)Describes principled ways to solve common user interface design problems related to search, faceted navigation, and discovery. The patterns are offered as proposed sets of design guidelines based on our research and design experience as well as lessons learned from the information search and discovery community
*Design Pattern App
Submitted by matt 4 days ago (more from patternapp.com)A resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a collection of Web design patterns, best practices, which helps you to find inspiration and design interfaces with great user experience. It is also a user interface gallery full of real world examples of our patterns.
*HTML/CSS CSS Voodoo - The dark art of CSS Hacks
Submitted by matt 7 days ago (more from blog.ginader.de)Since I joined Yahoo! I stopped using Conditional Comments for Performance Reasons (less HTTP Requests). So I needed to get familiar again with the common Hacks for Internet Explorer I had completely forgotten about. Over time I hardly ever ran into situations when other Browsers misbehaved - but it did happen. Here's the current State of my CSS Hack Collection.
*Miscellaneous An Introduction to the Internet Explorer Developer Tools
Submitted by matt 7 days ago (more from msdn.microsoft.com)Nice overview of what's essentially Firebug for IE. Wondering what the difference between Document Mode and Browser mode is? Document Mode allows you to manually choose which rendering engine you want IE to render the page with. Browser Mode changes both the Document Mode, and the User Agent string, which allows Internet Explorer 8 to lie about who it says it is.