007: RAPIDFIRE #1
No guests this week. We just chug through as many questions as possible. We plan to do one of these every so often to make sure we get to as many listener questions as possible. We talk about (roughly in order):
Guests
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
This episode is with just Chris & Dave, ShopTalk Show's hosts. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen and creator of CSS-Tricks, and Dave is lead developer at Paravel.
Time Jump Links
- (1:48) - What to focus on to move career forward
- (4:35) - “Google” Dart
- (6:35) - Clever uses of ::before and ::after
- (8:05) - A brief intro and explanation of the difference between Node.js and CoffeeScript
- (12:52) - Using PHP to serve CSS
- (15:58) - Planning a framework
- (18:57) - How Modernizr helps make cross browser compatible sites
- (22:16) - Cleaning up the WordPress mess of plugins injecting CSS and JS
- (25:53) - Why CSS opacity affects all decedent elements and what you can do about it
- (28:40) - Finding the time
- (30:59) - Pros and Cons of Blueprint CSS Framework
- (34:05) - CSS rotation and poor text rendering
- (36:00) - When will we be able to animate/transition pseudo elements? [chart]
- (38:14) - Pixel tracking for emails and alternatives