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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. While this is a semantic improvement, every framework still added layout data to HTML. Tables declared their size in HTML itself.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. I was right, the html that I tried to embed was stripped out. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character.