December 30, 2008 0

Some CSS developer truths

By admin in css
  1. 99% of all the stylesheets out there are just designers trying to show off, minification, compression and gzipping is the new black – funny that Microsoft is one of the first major websites to have realized this
  2. There is not a single site I’m working on where I don’t enhance css with a few spices of PHP to be able to use variables, different color themes or my simple grid framework
  3. CSS frameworks are of no use to me, if you can’t code your own maybe you chose the wrong profession somewhere along the line
  4. Without Firebug I feel naked
  5. If I have to discuss the emotional abyss that is IE6 with another client I think I have to seriously kill myself
  6. I’m a real sucker for accessibility features and try to adhere to the new WCAG 2.0 rules as much as possible
  7. I hate JavaScript/ Ajax almost as much as I hate Flash
  8. In 2008 I had to code 3 sites with a splash page containing only a giant no-meaning-having ugly and absolutely useless flash movie, each time I almost threw up a little – client is king, period
  9. There is one thing I wish I could tell every website client I meet – First thing you have to do is cut 80% of your content, then we’ll talk again
  10. After almost a year on the Mac I did the unthinkable and switched back to Windows Vista of all things – I’m seriously wondering why almost all my dev/design heroes use a Mac. (One thing I will miss is the unix terminal and file structure)

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