Pixel Perfection
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Is it possible to have pixel-level control over the visual display of websites? And more importantly, should you even want to?
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Should designers code?
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In our second episode, we discuss the wonderfully polarizing question, “should designers code?”
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Is CSS a programming language?
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In their very first episode, Heydon and Stephen discuss whether CSS is—or should be considered—a programming language. There's also a bit about beer.
info_outlinePixel perfection: the idea that designers and developers can have pixel-level control over how things are shown on the screen. At worst, it's an illusion. At best, the time and effort invested to try and achieve it may not be worth it. Heydon and Stephen ponder our reluctance to accept the web as a non-static medium, what our "real" deliverables are, and whether the quest for pixel perfection provides the value we tend to think it does.
The article on "hard and soft grids" that we discussed is:
Touhey, James. ‘The Bottomline on Measuring Hard and Soft Grids, Part I’. Medium, 10 August 2018. https://uxplanet.org/the-bottomline-on-measuring-hard-and-soft-grids-part-i-7ff52d7bc458.