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Peter Bhat Harkins
How To De-Asshole-ify Links
Code: assholes, css, design, Firefox, links, user experience
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I loathe sites that set unvisited and visited links to be the same color. There are exactly two reasons that sites do this:
Tidy Stylesheets in Rails
Code: css, design, maintainability, Rails, Ruby
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It’s very easy for a site’s CSS to grow a single giant, brittle stylesheet. It becomes impossible to change anything because of bizarre interactions between elements, unexpected interactions, and simply because it’s just too big for anyone to understand. Much of programming is managing complexity, and I’ll share a nice technique in that vein.