Archive for June, 2012

This is a continuously updated list of CSS articles that I recommend to other Amazon developers.

• CSS3 units and their uses
• CSS selector specificity - determines the order in which rules are applied to an element
• SASS vs LESS throwdown - how to choose a CSS preprocessor
• Sassy Mother Effing Text Shadow - behold the power of SASS
• Twitter Bootstrap – lightweight, full-featured, componentized CSS library with awesome documentation
• SASS - popular CSS preprocessor with great documentation
• Compass home - a library full of reusable CSS best-practices, built on SASS
• When to use !important
• WebKit accelerated rendering and compositing - an explanation of WebKit’s RenderLayer tree and z-index tree
• Crazy Town – avoiding overly-specific selectors