Archive for the ‘Css3 News’ Category
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Back in March 2011 we reported that Think Vitamin were offering free access to their entire CSS3 Video Training Course for 24 hours only. I’m pleased to announce that this week I received an email from Alan Johnson at Think Vitamin letting me know that once again they’ve decided to offer free access to the [...]
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Released on Friday 20th May 2011, Firefox 5 beta brings long awaited support for the CSS3 Animations module, released as a W3C working draft in March 2009, to Mozilla’s popular web browser. The following properties are supported, although you’ll have to use the ‘-moz-’ prefix for the time being: animation-delay animation-direction animation-iteration-count animation-name animation-play-state animation-timing-function [...]
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05.25.11
Angles in Gradients
Posting on behalf of Tab Atkins about an open spec issue: I’ve been pretty adamant for some time that gradients should use the math-y interpretation of angles, where 0deg is East and 90deg is North. In addition to matching what you learn in school about polar coordinates, it matches what tools like Photoshop expose. Other [...]
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Stunning CSS3 by Zoe Gillenwater is a project-based book offering a solid guide to what’s possible and what’s coming around the corner with CSS. Published by PeachPit, Stunning CSS3 is set in the same easy-going, information-packed writing style that carried out in her previous book, Fluid Web Layout. Over the course of seven chapters, Gillenwater [...]
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04.25.11
More Module Updates from the W3C
The W3C CSS Working Group have introduced a new module to CSS3, the CSS3 Grid Layout module, as well as released two further updated specifications, for the CSS3 Multi-column Layout and CSS3 Text modules. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new. CSS3 Grid Layout Initially proposed by Microsoft, and first released as a W3C [...]
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With Internet Explorer 9 barely out of the labs, Microsoft yesterday caught many developers by surprise, with the launch of the first platform preview of the latest incarnation of their popular web browser, Internet Explorer 10, at this years Mix conference. The latest version of Internet Explorer, currently only three weeks into the development cycle, [...]
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Over the course of the last two weeks, the W3C CSS Working Group have issued three updated CSS3 specifications. The first sees the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders module return to candidate recommendation, with the second and third providing updated working drafts of the CSS3 Text and CSS3 Image Values and Replaced Content modules respectively. The [...]
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Think Vitamin are offering free access to their entire CSS3 Video Training Course for 24 hours, until Wednesday March 16th at 11:59pm. The series, totalling 51 videos, covers CSS3 basics such as border-radius, box-shadow and CSS3 gradients, as well as more complex subjects including CSS3 selectors, transitions, animations and transforms. The full series of videos [...]
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12.18.10
CSS3 For Web Designers – Book
A Book Apart (11-2010) | PDF | 400 pages | 8.0Mb CSS3 For Web Designers . From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities. No one can better guide you through these galaxies [...]
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The Short Answer: None of it. The Slightly Longer Answer: I’m in the process of updating the Preview area at the moment (sneak preview), and what’s immediately apparent is the low level of implementation of the new CSS 3 features across the major browsers. As IE6 is still the most widely-used browser, roughly 50% (and, [...]