Archive for December 2010

Head JS

Head JS is a marvelous thing. 2.3K when gzipped, and look at all it does: screen width detection (with CSS support), HTML5 element injection (like Modernizr), parallel script downloading with serial execution… I haven’t checked how well it does performance-wise, but I hope it’s decent, because I kind of want to start using it everywhere.

CSS Cards v1.1

Anika over at selfthinker gave me a shout-out for my CSS Deck of Cards. She’d developed a deck of her own and was analyzing alternatives.

She (correctly) pointed out that my deck offered nothing for accessibility. Admittedly, my original design wasn’t aiming for accessibility — rather, I just wanted to see if I could do an entire deck with just CSS and nothing in the markup. But to address her concerns, I’ve just released v1.1 of the deck, which now allows accessibility as an option. The layout is still off in Chrome, but that’s getting fixed in v1.2.