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Apple has started the Retina revolution as described in Jaan Jobais article of the same name: Retina revolution. Definitely worth a read! Before discussing his article, I'll clarify the issues created by Retina displays and how we solve them using webfonts, SVG and CSS3. Pixel Density Retina displays basically has doubled it's pixel density, using  the double amount of pixels...

Focus moves from small animation scripts to pure CSS During the past year(s), CSS3 has won ground, and as part of that, CSS transitions/animations take over from jquery.animate and equivalents whenever it's possible. Why do we prefer CSS transitions / animations over javascript animations? That's a pretty obvious answer! Why load a javascript just to animate some CSS dropdown /...

Responsive Webdesign in a few words We all know it, and most of us like it. It's when you use CSS mediaqueries to move around content based on clients screen size. But so much more than that. Please read Dan's article on responsive webdesign.  What really made it popular It's really pretty basic. It's the cheapest way to create and...

Year of the preprocessors During 2012 (and way before that time as well) frontend developers started using preprocessors for frontend code. Both for CSS, HTML and JavaScript. CSS (Sass, LESS) We started using Sass in ILLUMI in 2011 in sort of a trial mode. During 2012 we've formalized it quite a bit, and we keep working on that. For most...

CSS3 udvikler sig konstant, og der er nu ved at ske endnu et kvantespring. Vi har gennem det seneste relativt lange stykke tid prædiket at man skulle lave "Responsive Webdesign". Det gør vi i den grad stadig, artiklen i linket henviser til at de responsive teknikker udvikles konstant, og at vi forhåbentligt snart kan lave skalerbare typografier. Med andre ord,...