Is Google's WebP the Image Format of the Future? Maybe not.

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Yesterday Google unveiled a new image format for the web called WebP. A companion format for Google's WebM video format, WebP promises 40% size savings over traditional JPEG. Google claims image compression on the web needs to be improved, and I heartily agree—I, for one, am certainly tired of watching oversized blog background images drip down body tags like molasses—but a new standard is not only unnecessary, it's potentially detrimental to widespread adoption of any JPEG replacement.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on Oct 01, 2010

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Internet Explorer 9 CSS

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The Internet Explorer 9 Beta was released yesterday. Not only does this mean the venerable IE is one ponderous step closer to entering the modern era of web browsers, it also means the official MSDN CSS compatibility tables have been updated to include IE9. If you're a CSS nerd like me, I highly suggest you browse through the contents and take a look at what's new. If you're not a huge dork—I suspect most of you aren't striving for the status—then read on, because I'm going to run through some of the most exciting features I ran across.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on Sep 16, 2010

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iPhone App Mode Bookmarklet

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If you're an iPhone (or iDevice) user you probably have a lot of applications on your phone. In fact, if you're a typical iPhone user, you probably have way too many applications on your phone. Happy to encourage your app addiction, many popular websites like Facebook and Wolfram Alpha offer native applications through the iPhone App Store. However, others like Gmail and Google Voice are only available as web applications.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on Sep 08, 2010

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Get More Comfortable With HTML5 Lists

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At the time of its standardization, XHTML marked a major leap forward in standards for the web. Gone were the days of sloppy markup and broken pages due to unclosed tags. Strict syntax was the way of the future! Strict syntax promised to lead us to bigger and better success.

Well HTML5 is here and all that is out the window. HTML5 promises us more power than we've ever had before, but as far as markup syntax is concerned, it's sort of like moving from Dick's Drive In to Red Robin—both will get you your burger fix, but one has over a dozen overwhelming options vs the other's concise selection of four.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on Jul 07, 2010

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Poor Man's nth-of-type

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Today I'm going to focus on the nth-of-type selector. This selector is similar to nth-child except it allows us to restrict our selector to a specific element type, which is often more useful than applying the style to every element regardless of type. Internet Explorer doesn't support this selector, but with a little trickery we can fool it into doing what we want.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on Jun 11, 2010

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Take CSS By the Horns - Drop Shadows

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For my first post, I'm going to talk about drop shadows. Drop shadows are something designers love and developers hate. A well placed drop shadow can really add some depth to a design, but they are notoriously difficult to implement. I'm going to share an easy solution I've been using to implement drop shadows which doesn't require images, Javascript, or hair pulling and only necessitates a slight compromise of your standards.

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author// Darren Kovalchik on May 28, 2010

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