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A cool new CSS reference

Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien have made something I’ve wanted to make for a while but haven’t had time for: a complete, modern CSS reference with in-depth usage information, examples, and compatibility information for more browsers than my standards support resource currently covers. I haven’t read through the whole thing, but what I’ve seen so far has been pretty accurate, including the documentation of some picky bugs that most standards support resources miss.

For a while now, I’ve felt that we’ve needed an accurate, up-to-date reference with more information and better readability than the W3C specs. Aside from the “all rights reserved” licensing, this is very close to the way I would have designed it. Clearly, a lot of work has been put into this.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 17:26 UTC and is filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “A cool new CSS reference”

  1. John L. Clark Says:

    March 5th, 2008 at 16:15 UTC

    I wanted a quick answer to the following question: “Does Firefox 2 support the ability to style alternating elements differently?” I knew there was a (CSS 3) pseudo-class for it, but I couldn’t remember the name of the pseudo-class or the latest support status. Naturally, I wandered over to Web Devout. I noticed your linkage to Olsson and O’Brien’s CSS reference, so I decided I’d look for my answer there. After 5-10 minutes of poking around in their reference, I couldn’t find the answer, so I came back to WD, and was able to locate the answer in under a minute. Your reference is easy to navigate and interpret and provides accessible quirk information, and I prefer the approach of linking directly into the specifications. The only thing I wanted, but could not find, was information about when your reference tables were last updated.

    Posted using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Linux.