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Why Buttons, Forms And Grids Needed A Common Language
An article about the repeated interface decisions that made reusable front-end systems feel increasingly necessary in 2011.
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Twitter Bootstrap And The Need For Shared Front-End Patterns
A practical look at why Bootstrap felt interesting in 2011: not because it solved every front-end problem, but because it gave repeated interface patterns a shared starting point.
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CSS Preprocessors And The First Signs That CSS Needed Structure
An article about why Sass and LESS started to feel useful as CSS files became larger and front-end work needed more structure.
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Modernizr And The Case For Feature Detection
An article about why feature detection felt more reliable than browser detection as HTML5 and CSS3 support became increasingly uneven.
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IE9 And The Slowly Improving Browser Conversation
A practical article about Internet Explorer 9 and how it changed, but did not remove, the browser support conversations developers were having in 2011.
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Media Queries Moving From Experiment To Project Requirement
A 2011-style article about media queries moving from interesting CSS technique to something real client projects increasingly needed.