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CSS3 Pseudo-Class Selectors Emulation in Internet Explorer

Chris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:13:19 +0000

Keith Clark, an independent web developer from the UK, has developed a JavaScript solution to IE’s CSS3 shortcomings in relation to CSS3 selectors. CSS3 selectors became the first W3C module to reach proposed recommendation status back in December 2009. His ie-css3.js project (currently in beta) allows Internet Explorer, versions 5 through 8, to identify CSS3 pseudo-class [...]

Join the CSS Quality Assurance Team

fantasai — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:12:52 +0000

As you may (or may not) know, I’m an Invited Expert on the CSS Working Group at W3C. Mostly I talk about specs. But today, I’m going to talk about testing. W3C is working on test suites for the CSS specs, and I wanted us to have more web authors involved. Many of you have been [...]

Opera adds support for CSS3 Transitions and 2D Transforms

Chris — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Opera has today issued a pre-alpha release of Opera 10.5 offering increased support for CSS3 and HTML5 as well as vastly increased JavaScript performance and improvements to the browser’s user interface. Based on Opera’s Presto 2.5 rendering engine, Opera 10.5 adds CSS3 Transitions and 2D Transforms to the long list of CSS3 properties already supported by [...]

CSS3 Selectors becomes the first CSS3 Module to reach Proposed Recommendation

Chris — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:04:10 +0000

Following on from the W3C TPAC 2009, held back in November, CSS3 Selectors was officially advanced to Proposed Recommendation by the W3C Director earlier this week. Although a number of CSS3 modules have now reached the Candidate Recommendation stage of development, CSS3 Selectors is the first CSS3 module to reach Proposed Recommendation. A Proposed Recommendation is [...]

CSS3 Progress following the W3C TPAC 2009

Chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:57:01 +0000

The annual W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee (TPAC) meetings week took place last month bringing together the CSS Working Group, amongst others, for a series of face to face meetings in Santa Clara, California. Minutes from the meeting have now been made available online and promise progress for a number of CSS3 modules including [...]

Microsoft Announces CSS3 Support for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)

Chris — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:19:49 +0000

Microsoft today offered developers an early glimpse of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at their 2009 Professional Developers Conference. Although only at an early stage of development, the IE9 team already looks to have made some impressive leaps forward in terms of web standards support, particularly with regard to CSS3 selectors which, by the looks of the [...]

Adobe AIR 2 brings Advanced CSS3 Support to the Desktop

Chris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Adobe today released a public beta of AIR 2, available for download from their Adobe Labs website, with the final release expected somewhere in the first half of 2010. Adobe AIR 2 offers a number of improvements and advantages over its predecessor, including advanced support for CSS3 & HTML5 thanks to an updated version of [...]

Standards.Next CSS3 in New York City

David Storey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:27:23 +0000

To coincide with Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Opera is organising a free Standards.Next event on the topic of CSS3 the following Friday 20th November, at the Time–Life Building. This space has been generously donated to us by Time & Life. The Standards.Next concept is to showcase, teach and raise awareness of future Web [...]

CSS3 Resource: Preview Custom Web Fonts with Font Dragr

Chris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:58 +0000

Font Dragr is a HTML5/CSS3 powered web app for testing custom web fonts. The app allows you to drag and drop your truetype (ttf), opentype (otf), scalable vector graphics (svg) or Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts into the webpage for an instant preview of how the font will be rendered in the browser, you [...]

Firefox Adds Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF) via @font-face

Chris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:41:57 +0000

Mozilla has joined a growing list of organizations to throw their support behind the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and will support the embedding of WOFF fonts via @font-face from Firefox 3.6 onwards, or if you’re a developer and want to play around with this now, just download a recent nightly build or beta. Although the [...]