Anigma – Online Gaming using only CSS3 Animations and Transitions
Benjamin Meyer has been busy creating Anigma, an online game designed to showcase some of the functionality in CSS3, particularly CSS3 Transitions and Animations.
Anigma is a simple puzzle game where the player has to remove the jewels from the screen, by moving matching jewels next to each other, and progress through multiple levels of varying [...]
24 February 2010 in CSS3 Previews, News
Introducing the Flexible Box Layout module
One aspect of CSS3 that hasn’t received a lot of attention so far is the Flexible Box Layout module. Already implemented in the Gecko and WebKit engines, in this alternative box model:
“… the children of a box are laid out either horizontally or vertically, and unused space can be assigned to a particular child or [...]
8 October 2009 in CSS3 Previews, Modules
Firefox 3.6 adds background clipping
As well as all the new CSS features we mentioned previously, Firefox 3.6* is gaining a brand new property value: image-rect. This allows you to clip an area of a background image to display only part of the whole.
It uses Mozilla’s proprietary prefix, and takes two values: a URI for the image, and the boundaries [...]
26 August 2009 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews
Webkit Announces Support for CSS 3D Transforms
Simon Fraser announces support for CSS 3D Transforms, on Mac OSX Leopard, in the latest Webkit nightlies.
20 July 2009 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews, News
Try out the CSS 3 Template Layout module
If you want to get a taste of using the CSS 3 Template Layout module, Alex Deveria has written a jQuery plugin which implements the syntax.
I haven’t had the opportunity to try it out yet, so let me know how you get on.
5 May 2009 in CSS3 Previews, Modules
Meyer and Resig on CSS3
Six Revisions put six questions to the estimable Eric Meyer on the subject of CSS3, and we get some nice link love.
Also (and I’m slightly late with this one) John Resig, creator of the jQuery library, runs an approving eye over the Advanced Layout Module. Webmonkey provide further context. We looked at the module back [...]
10 December 2008 in CSS3 Previews, Interviews
RGBa in action and further CSS3 reading
An advantage of not posting for a while is that there are usually plenty of good subjects to talk about when you get back to it…
With a kind nod of the head to our post from way back in 2006, Andy Clarke has posted a screencast (with full transcript and code examples) of RGBa values [...]
27 October 2008 in CSS3 Previews
A few links of note
Just a flying update, to provide some links of interest (with little-to-no comment):
Firefox 3.1’s release date has been pushed back a little; I understand that, CSS-wise, Transforms and Web Fonts are the current blockers.
John Resig takes a look at the implementation of border-image in FF 3.1 (with examples supplied by us)
The CSS Marquee module has [...]
14 August 2008 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews, Modules
Opera 9.5 launches with lots of CSS improvements
Opera have released version 9.5 of their browser today, and the good news for our readers (and web users in general) is that there are lots of CSS 3 features implemented. This article on dev.opera.com goes into more detail, but major improvements include:
@media queries
text-shadow
-o-background-size
opacity
hsl colours
overflow-x & overflow-y
all css selectors
form pseudo-classes
Download a copy today and take [...]
12 June 2008 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews
Slow times for CSS 3 news
News about developments in CSS 3 is hard to come by at the moment, so please forgive the slow rate of updates on the site in the last month. I attended the @media conference here in London last week and news on progress in CSS was noticeable by its absence, when even HTML 5 had [...]
4 June 2008 in CSS3 Previews, Modules, Proposals, W3C
