One of our case studies touches on the creation of a star rating system for data collection tool used by Tearfund in Sub-saharan Africa.
Stars I hear you say? Well that’s just images. Easy.
Yeah, we could have built it using images. Dull dull dull. We’re still of the mind that anything can be accomplished with a little imagination so we opted for a css based approach. And here’s how we did it.
It’s been a while in the making but Rareloop.com has had a welcome update including a case studies section showing off a little of what we do (more on it’s way). We had a lot of decisions to make about how we portray ourselves but eventually decided that transparency and simplicity work best. We won’t be hammering our Rareloop twitter account or artificially pushing a facebook page, instead we’re going to keep talking about things that we care about (when we can find the time) and show people what we do.
We hope you like it.
CSS Counters have been in the spec since 2.1 and work well with the psuedo elements :before and :after. They’re pretty neat especially when mixed with nested elements where they can return even more granular results but I’ve never seen them used in the wild.
CSS Counters seem designed for list items but what if you wanted to create documentation, Ts & Cs or minutes for a meeting that had section & sub-section numbers but weren’t laid out as a list? Turns out there are a few tricks to getting this to work properly.
Other examples I’ve seen explore using counters on ordered or unordered list and give you options for declaring the value of nested list items, but I wanted a solution that would allow numeration of a more ‘free-form’ document. So that’s what I’ve tried to do here, let me know how you think I did. . . Continue reading
So it’s the first blog post of my new blog. And I have a choice. The first post on a blog kind of sets out your stand so I’m thinking I should start with a write up of one of our recent experiences with HTML5 on mobile devices. But there’s something else on my mind:
There was a ridiculous media back-lash (‘media’, as opposed to say, ‘normal’, ‘reasonable’ or ‘rational’) to Apple’s press release last week with the ensuing sh**storm of naysayers saying, well ‘nay’, and other assorted pundits declaring that Apple is doomed. Here are three reasons I think they nailed it. Continue reading