A quick tip for improving the accessibility of CSS sprites: instead of using sized backgrounds, use the :before pseudoelement. Sprites added with :before will still show up in Windows high-contrast mode, whereas backgrounds are eliminated.
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Quickly adding a link to the iOS Simulator
I was looking for a way to easily add a link to the iOS Simulator in my ~/Applications folder, but every explanation that worked for Mavericks seemed unnecessarily complicated to me. Here’s what I figured out myself: Open Xcode and launch the simulator as normal Control-click on the simulator icon in the dock, and select …
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CSS Colours and Colors: A nicer color palette for the web CSS Colours presents all the standard CSS colours in nice large swatches. Mouse over the swatch for hex and RGB values. Colors provides much nicer versions of a subset of the default CSS colours. They’re a bit less saturated, the black isn’t pure; generally …
Terry Cavanagh’s insanely hard games
After my post yesterday on Flappy Bird, my brother pointed out that a big part of the attraction was the punishing difficulty level, and bragging rights. If need a really hard game that’s insanely addictive, you can’t do better than Terry Cavanagh’s Super Hexagon. You control a triangle dodging rapidly rotating walls in a hexagonal …
All in a flap
The big news this week amongst nerd circles seems to be the disappearance of Flappy Bird from the App Store. I never tried it, so I don’t get the attraction to such a simple and kind of ugly game. For folks mourning the fact they didn’t get on Flappy Bird in time, I’d like to …