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"In my humble opinion, the best websites and web applications have a tangible “real” quality to them. There are lots of factors involved to achieve this quality, but shadows are a critical ingredient."

Yet his own site style is totally flat?

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It’s not totally flat. Flat where appropriate. Documents should be flat. Shadows are for things that appear on top of other things. There’s a message on the left that says, “Hi there! Can I share a cool thing I’m working on with you?” This has a shadow, because it appears on top of the document.

The "Posts" nav item has a dropdown that overlays the document and is still completely flat.

The dropdown has a shadow for me with Chrome (and also a sound effect).

There is a drop shadow on the posts nav item: https://i.imgur.com/dY408DK.png

"The shoemaker's children always go barefoot" as they say.

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