Christopher Aue

Articles

Why This Damn Vertical-Align Is Not Working (CSS)

There are three things you need to know about the CSS property vertical-align to make it work: 1. It aligns elements in a line of text which 2. might change its height and 3. might reposition its baseline.
How To Fade Web Pages On Load And Unload (CSS + JS)

Fading web pages on load and unload creates a more pleasing experience for a website's visitors. It can be achieved with plain old html, a little bit of CSS and JS.
URLs Without Trailing Slash or Extension (Nginx, Apache)

I prefer URLs without a trailing slash or an extension when they are pointing to pure html content. They get the information across without burdening the user with technical implementation details. The configuration for nginx is easy, Apache needs some kicks in the butt.
em Font-Sizes As Global Scaling Factor (CSS)

There are good reasons to subordinate dimensions in a layout to the font size using the CSS unit `em`. It provides a central control knob to scale a website or parts of it up and down while keeping everything in proportion. It's the web designer's browser zoom, so to speak.
Vertical-Align: All You Need To Know (CSS)

The CSS property vertical-align never seems to do what is expected from it. But its behavior can actually be understood. This article explains what is going on.
Centering an Inline-Block With Vertical-Align: Middle (CSS)

A way to vertically center an inline-block with CSS is to use vertical-align: middle. This is especially powerful when the area that an element is centered in has a height determined by its content.
Physical Size of CSS Units On Smartphones, Tablets & Co

The size of a website in physical units like centimeters or inches does not only differ between smartphones, tablets and desktop monitors. It also differs within these categories. Ideally, this should not be the case to guarantee a consistent usability across devices. Let's see how noticeable these size differences are.

Projects

concurrently — A concurrency framework for Ruby and mruby

At its core runs an event loop that schedules ruby fibers. It enables event driven software design, especially evented IO. It's fast, light-weight and well documented.
The library is hosted on github.

I'm a freelance web developer working across the whole stack. While being focused on the implementation side of things, my bag of skills is round off with some graphic and motion design.

To cool down in the evening, I like to watch and think about stories told with sound and moving pictures—you know, these things called films and video games. I need my sleep, work out in the morning and don't have free time. It's boring anyway.

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