Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today
January 5th, 2011 — No Comments
For a while now, here on Smashing Magazine, we have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies.
Good to see Smashing Magazine take action to all the negative comments they wrongly receive when they post anything to do with HTML5 and CSS3. You’ll get left behind if you aren’t using the latest technologies just because IE doesn’t support them.
Read more...Andy Clarke at DIBI Conference 2010 - Hardboiled Web Design
December 31st, 2010 — No Comments
Finally got round to watching Andy Clarke’s Harboiled Web Design talk at DIBI. A must watch.
Read more...Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect
December 9th, 2010 — No Comments
Page curl effects using nothing but CSS involving :before and :after pseudo-elements. Very nicely done and certainly usable now just ignore the proprietary, non-standard IE filter.
Read more...Drawing arbitrary elements as backgrounds with -moz-element
December 9th, 2010 — No Comments
Very interesting and innovative new CSS background implementation proposed by Mozilla for use in Firefox 4. Basically you can use any element via it’s ID as easily as this:
background: -moz-element(#yourelement);
It works with any HTML element even <iframe> or <video>. Make sure you download the Firefox 4 Beta and check out some of the demos, especially the animated water ripple reflection and the video demo. Both demos are probably a little over the top but certainly demonstrate the implementation effectively. Hopefully other browsers will pick this up and implement it too.
Read more...Webkit Clock
December 8th, 2010 — No Comments
Really impressive. WebKit Global Clock uses HTML5, CSS3, JS, @font-face, SVG, no images.
Found via Cameron Moll on Twitter.
Read more...CSS3 for Web Designers
December 8th, 2010 — No Comments
I’ve been keeping up to date with the world of CSS3 so there isn’t anything particularly new for me in this book but that doesn’t stop me from recommending it. As you would expect from Dan Cederholm, it’s well written with great examples of code. Definitely a great place to start if you’re learning CSS3.
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