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CSS3 Rocks

Chris — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:36:27 +0000

Google have recently updated their HTML5ROCKS site, originally launched in June this year, with numerous new demos and tutorials for HTML5 and CSS3. The latest update adds, amongst other articles, a tutorial for CSS3 Web Fonts (with @font-face) and a new ‘HTML5 Studio’ – offering a number of live demos for many of the new [...]

Updated Preview: border-radius

Chris — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:58:26 +0000

The border-radius page in our CSS3 Preview section has been updated to reflect the latest version of the Backgrounds & Borders specification and the latest browser support. The page now offers a more comprehensive and easy to follow guide/tutorial, including cross-browser examples, which should enable any designer (whether novice or expert) to get to grips [...]

Updated Candidate Recommendation for Media Queries

Chris — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:50:34 +0000

The CSS Working Group published an updated Candidate Recommendation of the Media Queries module on the 27th July. According to a post by Bert Bos (Friday 6th August) on the www-style mailing list, the main change is that an empty media query is no longer an error, but rather applies to all media, for example: [...]

Firefox 4 Beta 2 Brings Increased Support for CSS3 Transitions

Chris — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:50:41 +0000

Mozilla announced the arrival of Firefox 4 Beta 2 late last week, only three weeks after the release of Beta 1. This updated release includes two major improvements over the first beta release, notably increased performance and increased support for CSS3 Transitions. You can download the latest release here. Increased Performance Firefox 4 Beta 2 [...]

An Interview with ZURB

Chris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:47 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, chances are you’ve heard of US interaction designers and strategists ZURB. Over the past few months their ZURBplayground has showcased some fantastic examples and demonstrations of the power of CSS3, alongside other web technologies, and has been covered by tens of thousands of [...]

Firefox 4 Beta Brings Increased Support for CSS3

Chris — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:45:11 +0000

The first public beta of the forthcoming Firefox 4 browser has been released bringing increased support for CSS3 amongst various other improvements. One of the most notable new additions in Firefox 4 is support for CSS3 Transitions (with the -moz- prefix). Webkit based browsers (such as Safari / Chrome) and Opera have supported CSS3 Transitions [...]

W3C Issues Last Call for Comments on CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders

Chris — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:15:49 +0000

The W3C have today issued a last call working draft for the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders module. The updated specification includes several changes from the previous Candidate Recommendation release including: * Addition of ‘content-box’ value of ‘background-clip’. * Change to the ‘background’ shorthand syntax for ‘background-clip’ and ‘background-origin’. * Removal of recommendation to use gradients [...]

Microsoft Test Results Cause Controversy

Chris — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:01:44 +0000

They may have arrived late to the party, but Microsoft are keen to make their presence known, and in an effort to show just how engaged with the web standards community they are, or perhaps more a chance to try and gain one up on the competition, have published a set of results (on the [...]

Box-Shadow back on the Menu (and other updates)

Chris — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:46:22 +0000

A recent editors draft of the CSS3 Background and Borders module (published on 5th may) indicates that the box-shadow property could be set to make a reappearance before the specification is released as a Proposed Recommendation. The specification also features several other updates including the addition of a ‘content-box’ value to the background-clip property, changes [...]

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Released

Chris — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:46:09 +0000

Microsoft today announced further details of their forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser, along with the first platform preview for developers, at their MIX Conference 2010. Amongst the announcements comes increased support for CSS3, with support promised for CSS3 Selectors, Namespaces, Colors, Values, Backgrounds & Borders and Fonts, along with increased support for HTML5 and improvements [...]