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garand | 13 years ago | on: What No One Told You About Z-Index 

  You'll never be able to use `position:absolute` for anything outside of the context of an element's parent.
While true, I find that the instances that I need something to be absolutely positioned outside of it's context are few and far between. Also, it is quite easy to set position static on the parent elements.

  Every new developer will need to wrap their head around nonstandard page flow
I work with a team that is on board with this, so it hasn't been an issue yet.

Also, refer to this: http://css-tricks.com/things-it-might-be-funuseful-to-try-th...

garand | 13 years ago | on: What No One Told You About Z-Index

To solve the issue of z-index only working on positioned elements, what I do on all new projects is set the following:

  * {
    position:relative;
  }
This does two things. Allows me to set z-index values without hassle, and also allows me to set top/bottom left/right values.

Refer to my GitHub repo for the code for my base structure for new projects.

https://github.com/garand/base

garand | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the Command Bar

As someone who uses GitHub's web interface multiple times a day, the ability to dig down into specific actions and pages for a repo will save a lot of time clicking around. The big one for me, adding issues.
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