Make HTML/CSS faster with Zen coding

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Once I needed to make tabs on the webpage. As it's a rather routine problem, I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, so I just googled a little bit to see how people solve it. All the solutions I found looked rather run of the mill, something like that:

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I asked my readers to think out a technique for laying out blocks with rounded-off corners and shadows. Take a look at the solutions I received, and you will see that most of them are very much alike: four elements in the corners and a somewhat odd-looking result, though there are some differences in block placement. Let's take a detailed look at the way those techniques work and also find out why this article isn't simply titled "Creating rounded-off blocks with shadows."

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In December of this year, representatives from nations around the globe will gather in Copenhagen to discuss a global agreement on climate change. The objective is to reduce global warming emissions sufficiently in order to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change and to support the global community in adapting to the unavoidable changes ahead. Denmark will act as host for this fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention, known as COP15.

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Structural image editing. Left to right: (a) the original image; (b) a hole is marked (magenta) and we use line constraints (red/green/blue) to improve the continuity of the roofline; © the hole is filled in; (d) user-supplied line constraints for retargeting; (e) retargeting using constraints eliminates two columns automatically; and (f) user translates the roof upward using reshuffling.



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No, I am not talking about capturing screenshot of your desktop using Print Screen or other screen capture softwares. I wanted to implement requirement where I had to capture screenshots of the input website. Now this is a tricky job. If you do not have dedicated server machines and permissions on your shared hosting server, it becomes slightly difficult.



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