Browsing CSS
An Event Apart San Francisco 2008
Jeremy Keith’s live blogging is the next best thing to being there. 
Web Triage: Methodical Madness
The infamous SXSW panel picker is live. Love/hate aside, South By is about people. Not panels. And certainly not about the panel picker. Just the same, Messieurs Mall, Marcotte and myself wouldn’t mind if you shot a couple of stars the way of our presentation. Stethoscopes will be provided. BYOS (bring your own scrubs).
Look ma, no Flash
More goofing off with -webkit-transition. View source for comments.
Read V8
CSS Performance Testing
Jon Sykes thoroughly tests and confirms Dave Hyatt’s suggestion that sibling, descendant and child selectors have a significant, negative impact on page rendering. More importantly, his tests quantify the actual impact on performance. That’s it, I’m going back to working with tables.
DevKick
Really digging the typography and color of this new web design and development aggregation site by the man originally responsible for Stylegala.
CSS (in)Efficiency
Jim Barraud echoes unanswered questions about the performance of descendant selectors.
Read Image to Data Droplet for OS X
Convert Images to Base64 TextMate bundle
The page is in Catalan but the bundle is in English and pretty self-explanatory. Just drop the .tmCommand bundle file on TextMate. Then you can select some CSS or HTML that contains references to external images, hit Apple + control + B and they will be encoded as base64 and embedded with the data: protocol. Killer. Completely eliminates the need for that AppleScript droplet I was about to release.