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I am afraid this quote is an urban legend. It never existed.

!important is the only way to force a CSS rule to be more specific than an inline style. As such, it has legitimates uses in rare cases (a responsive websites with some javascript …

600€ to 800€ / day (depending on conditions) + VAT, I work in France (not Paris.) Remote only. Mainly web sites, some webapps, some native apps.

I wholeheartedly agree with your point, but why do you use Facebook comments, displayed in a whooping 11px ?

What ? Of course they should. It's all about choice. There are a shitload of standards and a limited amount of man-hour.

Ahah, the mythical ordinary user. I know some users. I don't know if they are ordinary. I think they are. My parents in their 50's. A grandmother of 80. Some friends which are 30 w…

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/11-apresenta... Nice use of Comic Sans in the presentation. Wonder if he paid the licence or used Powerpoint. Nice post though, I di…

Which is a (cool but) fake website. I've never seen a redesign keeping HTML code. Even when the code is very good and the separation well done.

Now bootstrap is important, yesterday it was the 360 grid, tomorrow it'll be another hype bandwagon. First, Bootstrap did not standardize anything. It's a biased perspective to thi…

What is wrong is that I can't zoom on your website. Typos won't scale. It's really a big accessibility problem. I can't read this article without using the Chrome inspector to chan…

I would be really curious to know the app vs website usage stats of LinkedIn.

It's awesome, but only useful on very specific animation-heavy projects. Otherwise it's quite overkill.

classList won't work in IE What's the point to use shims or polyfills if it means including some others libraries ? JQuery is not slow. If you .addClass() two hundred divs, sure. B…

"I encourage you to give it a shot. Write your next application, library or just code for fun without jQuery. " Been there, done that. And it's a pain in the * You'll find yourself…

You can't have multiple URL leading to the same information because of SEO. Well, you can (with canonical meta and stuff), but it's not an ideal practice. It is often better to cat…

For non french speaking people : Xavier Niel is the founder of Free, a major french internet and phone provider, known for kicking hornet nests (he's the "inventor" of low cost unl…

Do you know about : https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/ ? The back button is heavily used, even without gestures/mouse.

I feel always a little lost when I read tutorials which use SASSy/LESSy CSS. Illustrating exemples with a preprocessor means lots of web developers won't be able to read you. Moreo…

These learning websites never work for me. I know starting with basics (operations, variables, string manipulation) is the sensible thing to do, but they bore me. I always find eas…

If you want to do freelance work, learning PHP (or ASP) is mandatory. Sure, Ruby is great, but you'll keep stumbling on : "our shared host is PHP only, we don't want to change for …

As usual, nothing on cross-browser compatibility (respond.js, modernizr...), nothing on speed optimisation (a real problem in RWD), on backends issues (regarding the multiples imag…

It would be interesting to know the most used font on old gen Kindles (which have only three choices : serif, serif condensed and sans-serif.)

"Let's hinder 98% of our visitors to please the 2% with retina screen !" Seriously, developing for multiple density is hard in the real world. Way harder then this article says.

Of course you can. Here are the instructions on the free website : http://www.free.fr/assistance/2253-avec-un-modem-adsl.html

It's neutral : the filtering is at the router level, which belong to the user network.