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200728 May
Posted in News
I’ve put the new layout online! Of course I know work needs to be done on it, but I know myself: I’ll only do that when I put the new thing live :). The sidebar is widgetized, and I’ve tried to use as much css3 features as I could ;). I’ll be adding fallbacks for all the different css3 stuff in the coming days, for now, it looks best in a WebKit nightly build, and it looks pretty good in Firefox too… Let me know what you think!
Of course I need to thank Laurens, from TND media, for creating the design in Photoshop!
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200721 May
Posted in News
I’ve got a nice idea for a new extension to css3.info: a gallery of sites using CSS3 as an important aspect of their design. For that gallery I’d like you, our readers to submit your designs! Drop them in the comments, and I’ll create a cool gallery, which might feature your site!
In other news: this site will be getting a new layout in a few days, a first step towards making this site even bigger and better than it already is. Because we want to continually improve this site, Peter and myself would like to have some more people working with us on this site. If you think you can write nice posts for this site, or help us in any other way, please contact us through the contact form.
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200701 Apr
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200722 Mar
Posted in Declarations, Modules, News, W3C
After the issue of the overhauled CSS3 Text module recently, I wonder if the Fonts module is due for similar treatment? The current working draft states:
The working group believes this draft is stable and it therefore issues a last call for comments, before requesting the status of Candidate Recommendation for the draft. The deadline for comments is 30 August 2002.
Four and a half years ago! That’s a long feedback process!
The module introduces a few new features into the coder’s lexicon, and although none of them are truly essential, they would be very useful; there is so much text on the web, but typography is the least-developed aspect of CSS.
font-size-adjustlets you preserve the height of type even if the user doesn’t have your first-choice font installed. Certain fonts have higher height aspect than others, so type that you’ve carefully styled to appear at a certain height could suddenly appear smaller if font substitution was used.font-size-adjustlet’s you overcome that problem. The module provides some examples of font height aspects.font-stretchis useful when displaying font families with condensed or extended faces, such as Arial. You can select absolute (condensed, extended, etc) or relative (narrower, wider) values.font-effectallows you to apply ‘special effects’ to your font; choose from embossed, engraved, or outlined text.font-smoothswitches anti-aliasing on or off. Fonts look so ugly without anti-aliasing, I can’t imagine a situation where you’d ever turn it off!Finally, three declarations with limited use outside of East Asia:
font-emphasize-styleandfont-emphasize-position, along with the shorthandfont-emphasize. These are used only to set emphasis on East Asian characters.Will this module make it to recommendation in this form? Or will it make a comeback in altered form? I suspect the latter. But I think the most radical change to web typography will come not from the implementation of this module, but from the implementation of @font-face, which will facilitate the use of non-core fonts.
By the way, anyone interested in web typography should, if they haven’t already, read Richard Rutter and Mark Boulton’s Web Typography Sucks presentation. It’s a 4MB PDF download, but well worth ten minutes of your time.
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200709 Feb
Posted in News
As you might have seen, we have moved the blog from /blog/ to the main domain, since the homepage wasn’t exactly useful anyway. In the process we have moved some pages that were static into WordPress, and we will be doing that for most other pages as well in the coming weeks. If you see glitches, feel free to mail us, we’ll try and fix it.
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200728 Jan
As one of our readers has pointed out to us, the latest (3.5.6) release of the KHTML rendering engine passes all of the tests in our CSS selector testsuite – making the Konqueror 3.5.6 browser the most CSS3-compatible of all.
Also in the latest release is the implementation of text-overflow: ellipsis. It really is a shame that only a tiny proportion of web users have access to this excellent browser.
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200722 Jan
David Storey, Chief Web Opener at Opera, has announced on his blog that the latest internal builds of the Opera browser have advanced CSS3 selectors support.
Some of the new selectors are already enabled in the builds, while others have been implemented but not yet enabled due to technical reasons. All are hoped to be available in a future release version.
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200716 Jan
Posted in Declarations, News, Tutorials
IE7 is gaining market share and we can start to use more CSS3 selectors in our day to day code. Because of this, it’s worth a quick reminder that the more semantic we make our (X)HTML, the easier to implement the selectors will be.
For example, imagine the opportunities with the XFN microformat; by combining this with the partial attribute selector, you can add a little flourish to your pages.
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200709 Jan
Posted in Browsers, Interviews, News
The latest issue of the UK's .net magazine features an interview (update: the interview is now available to read here) with the general manager of the Internet Explorer team, Dean Hachamovitch.
He raises the point that not every internet user wants their browser upgraded every year, saying:
During the open mic session [at the Mix conference], someone said "please don't ship a browser every year – I can't handle that"… [There] are people who say, "I'm using an extranet in order to get my billing done and I'm scared. I really don't want browser changes because this is how I get paid".
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200708 Jan
Posted in CSS3 Previews, News
The WebKit developers are working hard on new CSS3 features. Last night Dave Hyatt mailed the webkit-dev mailinglist and blogged about the fact that box-shadow is now completely supported. I've quickly created a preview page for it. Then fellow CSS3 enthusiast Nicholas Shanks spoke to me on IM today and told me that the WebKit developers are working on supporting multiple column layouts as well. If you upgrade to the latest nightly, you can see their progress!
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