Hello all,
Today we’ll discussing about a pain in the ass we, web developers, are often assigned to: newsletters email development.
Nothing on the web will be a pain forever, and how we’ve seen beautiful scripts like html5shiv.js and respond.js come to life to achieve retro-compatibility. Today I’ve got some tweaks that will achieve a almost perfect background-fix for emails (since background handling is one of the hardest topics on email design and the solution is really handy).

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Hello all,
I’ve been discovering a lot of CSS tricks in the past weeks and I decided to make a little landing page about that. I don’t think they could be handy for everyday works but they still looks interesting and canvas-less (obviously with a canvas the job would be a lot easier). I feel like experimenting a bit is no damage on the web. 🙂

You could check them at http://www.darksideofthecss.com

I would discuss about every trick as soon as I’ve got time to write a full article!

As you know in these days HTML markup validation is becoming a common pratice. W3C offers his tool ( The W3C Markup Validator ) and it’s really useful to find obsolte code from old HTML revisions like the famous

<br clear="both"/>

Oh my br, i loved you a lot in past years, but it’s time to DIE! Nowadays it’s better to use

overflow: hidden;

to reset floating stuff.

Thank you W3C and goodbye BRCLEAR. You served the web well.

The times of long and boring javascripts for form validation ends now!

I decided long ago to move on HTML5 form validation way for small contact form, easier and lighter than javascript but expecially effective on mobile devices with low performances.
I’ll be quick and explain some of the shining features of this kind of form validation:

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