CSS3

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.

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 in 2006 (part one, part two), and my tongue-in-cheek prediction of a ten year wait to use it is now down to only eight years…

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 in action on his website For A Beautiful Web.

Over at Javascript Kit they’ve produced an exhaustively in-depth look at structural pseudo-classes.

On the subject of Javascript, Eric Meyer has written about how it can be leveraged to extend CSS3 support across browsers.

And Helen from Helephant.com writes a good introduction to the box-sizing property.

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 made it to Working Draft status. And now, with the rise of the mobile web and limited screen size, it actually has a practical implementation.

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 a look at some of the examples on our Preview pages. I’ve just noticed that the background-size example doesn’t work, but that seems to be our implementation at fault, not theirs.