1. Apple Showcases HTML5 & CSS3 →

    These examples are outstanding.

    Safari’s typography support is stunning. This could effectively kill other typography solutions like SIFR. And I wonder what it will do to Typekit’s business model?

  2. I love the visualization these guys came up with for this. You can read more about how they achieved this using Sass (syntactically awesome stylesheets). I’ve been using Sass for a while now in my Rails projects, and while I love some of the benefits, I’m not totally convinced. I do find myself straying back to plain old CSS syntax from time to time, and I haven’t put my finger on why I’m doing this. Sass has a big brother called Haml, which I’ve used also, but I like it less. It’s probably the fact that Sass is intrinsically tied to Haml, that unconsciously grates on me. I do applaud the efforts of Hashrocket on these DSLs though.

    I love the visualization these guys came up with for this. You can read more about how they achieved this using Sass (syntactically awesome stylesheets). I’ve been using Sass for a while now in my Rails projects, and while I love some of the benefits, I’m not totally convinced. I do find myself straying back to plain old CSS syntax from time to time, and I haven’t put my finger on why I’m doing this. Sass has a big brother called Haml, which I’ve used also, but I like it less. It’s probably the fact that Sass is intrinsically tied to Haml, that unconsciously grates on me. I do applaud the efforts of Hashrocket on these DSLs though.

  3. Safari 5 →

    Both Safari 5 and Rails 2.3.8 released this week. It’s like two Christmases at once! HTML5, Forms 2.0 and CSS3 here I come.

    Safari 5 has some major new features:

    • Reader (try it on Wikipedia), 
    • greater HTML5 support, faster rendering, 
    • additional search engine support (Bing and Yahoo!); and 
    • a new extensions system supporting HTML/CSS/JS plugins (like FF has had forever).

    Safari ReaderHTML5 SupportFast, faster, fastest!Extensions System

    I’ve installed Safari 5, and I’ve noticed a big difference in rendering on some sites - especially sites constructed using well formed HTML. Rendering of HTML5 seems blazingly fast - and has really given me the impetus to start using it wherever I can.