Comments for Jack Osborne — Freelance Web Designer Glasgow

Comment on CSS Tooltips with the Pseudo Element by Improving CSS tooltips — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:55:35 +0000

[...] slightly… Jack Osborne, whom I have followed on Twitter for a while now, posted some time ago a tooltip tutorial whereby you utilise the :after CSS pseudo-element and the attr() function to populate it. His [...]

Comment on CSS3 Gradients by Marc

Marc — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:22:32 +0000

Hi Jack,

You’ve noted that using CSS gradients means fewer HTTP requests, but isn’t that only the case if you use them instead of images?

For example, in your block of CSS you have a fallback image, gradient.png – won’t all browsers still load this file regardless of whether they support CSS gradients or not, in which case those that do just won’t use it?

Comment on .fc domain names by Jack Osborne

Jack Osborne — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:33:19 +0000

@Tom – I’ve changed the font-colour a little, so hopefully this will make things a little easier to read.

@Ryan – Good question, one that I don’t have an answer too. Only time will tell I guess.

Comment on .fc domain names by Ryan L

Ryan L — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:28:54 +0000

I think this a good idea and would love to see it implemented; but do you think the clubs themselves would want to implement this if they have used their current domain on advertisements, hoardings, shirts etc.

Comment on .fc domain names by Tom

Tom — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:08 +0000

I know you’re not asking for a design crit, but I feel the need to give feedback here: the contrast on fcdomainnames.com is very poor. If you’re going after the football industry, I’d recommend using a visual language that they’re familiar with, and are excited by.
I personally didn’t take the time to read through the information because it just blurs into one mass of beige, causing intense eye-fatigue.

Great idea though! Hope it works out.

Comment on CSS Content Property by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:47:25 +0000

Cheers Jack – appreciate this.

Thanks for all your work, only just discovered the blog but looks like it’ll be a great resource

Ryan

Comment on Is CSS3 Making Us Lazy? by Nathan Staines

Nathan Staines — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:58:47 +0000

Personally I think I prefer the direction things are heading at the moment, not in every area of web design but at least in the area of progressive enhancement.

In years gone by a lot of end users had no idea that other browsers existed outside of Internet Explorer, partly because we as designers went to the efforts of making things appear as though they were looking normal. (png fix)

Now that things don’t look exactly the same in each browser, it means that the user may go in search of a better browser that include the latest CSS3 techniques as apposed to sticking with one that’s nearly a decade old or better yet, it may just encourage the different browsers to stay on top of their games.

Comment on Is CSS3 Making Us Lazy? by Lee Munroe

Lee Munroe — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:57:42 +0000

I stopped providing IE fallbacks for rounded corners a while ago, and more recently gradients.

Is laziness the reason? Partly.

At some stage IE will catch up (IE9?) so until that day I don’t mind that IE users don’t get to see my rounded corners, gradients or shadows.

As long as it works for them and is usable, my mind is at ease and I can sleep better knowing my code is nice and clean

Comment on Is CSS3 Making Us Lazy? by Steve Rydz

Steve Rydz — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:11:45 +0000

With the rounded corners example as Mike said, adding extra markup, images, css or javascript to make this work in IE 7/8 defeats the object of using CSS 3 in the first place. I feel the same way about shadows (although I also feel that text-shadow is drastically overused right now).

If rounded corners are required for something such as a masthead (kind of like the old default wordpress theme) then I could justify having a fallback, although for that I’d maybe not even bother with the CSS 3 solution as it wouldn’t be enhancing anything then.

I don’t think that laziness is an issue here as the benefits really do outweigh the drawbacks in almost all cases.

Comment on Is CSS3 Making Us Lazy? by Si Jobling

Si Jobling — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:52:09 +0000

I’m not sure about it seeming lazy, merely a shift in mindset as to what is acceptable when it comes to progressive enhancement.

Years ago, IE6 was still a very popular browser but with the introduction of Google Chrome and Safari to a larger market, that ratio has dropped and the need to support older browsers is deteriorating.

It’s also nice that some of the big players are slowly dropping support for older browsers (Google, Twitter, Facebook), prompting Joe Public to upgrade their browsers to more capable versions.