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CSS Grid Layout Overhaul — Comments Needed!

fantasai — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:35:22 +0000

The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of CSS Grid Layout. This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system optimized for user interface design. This is publication is a major update: not only has the draft generally been reorganized and much of the prose rewritten to fill in missing details, avoid [...]

Opera Announces Switch to WebKit Rendering Engine

Chris — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:37:12 +0000

Opera Software have announced that they are abandoning their proprietary Presto rendering engine in favour of the open source WebKit rendering engine, for future versions of their mobile and desktop web browsers. Writing on the Opera Developer News blog, Bruce Lawson, Web Evangelist for Opera, offers the following explanation for the switch: When we first [...]

Japanese Government Offers Funding for Contributions of Code or Tests for the (Vertical) Text Features of CSS.

Chris — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:06:27 +0000

The Japanese government is offering several grants for researching the problems of vertical text layout standardization on next generation web browsers. Each grant is worth ¥100,000 (about €790). The project is being coordinated by NTT Japan and full details can be found on their website, which offers the following additional information: We are going to [...]

W3C Releases Updated Working Draft of CSS3 Text Module

Chris — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:34:02 +0000

The W3C this month, on 14th August 2012, released an updated working draft of the CSS3 Text Module. The updated working draft includes several changes from the previous version, published in January 2012. Keep reading for further details. Major changes Removed the ‘avoid’ value of ‘text-wrap’, since it doesn’t work very well with the fact [...]

CSS3 Media Queries Becomes Official W3C Recommendation, CSS4 Media Queries Takes Shape

Chris — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:21:49 +0000

The CSS3 Media Queries module was released as an official W3C Recommendation on 19 June 2012, marking the end of a development cycle that began over ten years ago (the first working draft of the specification was published on 4 April 2001). CSS3 Media Queries, which allows the presentation of content to be tailored to a [...]

CSS3 Transitions, Transforms and Animations – Now Prefix Free

Chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:16:53 +0000

Last month Microsoft announced that they now support (via their IE10 release preview) CSS3 Animations, Transforms and Transitions without the need for vendor prefixes, becoming the first browser to do so. What? I hear you cry. When did Microsoft begin leading the field in terms of CSS3 support? Were the Mayan’s right? Is this the [...]

Updated CSS3 Preview – CSS3 Attribute Selectors

Chris — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:20:42 +0000

The CSS3 Selectors module introduces three new attribute selectors, which are grouped together under the heading “Substring Matching Attribute Selectors”. These new selectors are as follows: [att^=val] – the “begins with” selector [att$=val] – the “ends with” selector [att*=val] – the “contains” selector Read the complete updated article in our CSS3 Preview section »

And The Winners Are…

Chris — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:17:18 +0000

Our competition has now closed and it’s time to announce the winners, each winning a digital copy of SitePoint’s latest book – The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights by Rachel Andrew. We asked you to answer the following question: A layout that stretches to fit a browser window is called what? a. [...]

Competition: Win One of Five FREE Digital Copies of SitePoint’s Latest Book – The CSS3 Anthology by Rachel Andrew

Chris — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:28:24 +0000

We’ve teamed up with SitePoint to give you the chance to win one of five free digital copies of their latest book – The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights by Rachel Andrew. This competition has now closed! About the Book The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights is a compilation [...]

New CSS3 Preview: CSS3 Transitions

Chris — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:50:24 +0000

CSS3 Transitions are a presentational effect which allow property changes in CSS values, such as those that may be defined to occur on :hover or :focus, to occur smoothly over a specified duration – rather than happening instantaneously as is the normal behaviour. Transition effects can be applied to a wide variety of CSS properties, [...]