Posts Tagged ‘CSS’
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An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations
- May 17th, 2011
- 79 Comments
By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design. Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can ...
Read more...The Future Of CSS: Experimental CSS Properties
- May 11th, 2011
- 84 Comments
Despite contemporary browsers supporting a wealth of CSS3 properties, most designers and developers seem to focus on the quite harmless properties such as border-radius, box-shadow or transform. These are well documented, well tested and frequently used, and so it’s almost impossible to not stumble on them these days if you ...
Read more...Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations
- May 3rd, 2011
- 64 Comments
With the arrival of IE9, Microsoft has signalled its intent to work more with standards-based technologies. With IE still the single most popular browser and in many ways the browser for the uninitiated, this is hopefully the long awaited start of us Web craftsmen embracing the idea of using CSS3 ...
Read more...CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark
- April 21st, 2011
- 152 Comments
I believe in the power, speed and “update-ability” of CSS3. Not having to load background images as structural enhancements (such as PNGs for rounded corners and gradients) can save time in production (i.e. billable hours) and loading (i.e. page speed). At our company, we’ve happily been using CSS3 on client ...
Read more...Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools
- April 18th, 2011
- 74 Comments
The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right ...
Read more...How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
- March 30th, 2011
- 63 Comments
CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. A number of powerful new pseudo-selectors (16 are listed in the latest W3C spec) enable ...
Read more...Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements
- March 19th, 2011
- 63 Comments
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article "Taming Lists", a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a decade later, Nicolas Gallagher came up with the technique pseudo background-crop which uses pseudo-elements with a sprite. Today, on the shoulders of giants, ...
Read more...Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
- March 14th, 2011
- 117 Comments
The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. With this in mind, does it not stand to reason that your typography should be one of ...
Read more...CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions
- February 16th, 2011
- 49 Comments
Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this ...
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