CSS3 Preview Archives

News on improvements and new additions to the CSS3 Preview section on this site.

What CSS 3 Can You Easily Use Right Now?

Excerpt: The Short Answer: None of it. The Slightly Longer Answer: I'm in the process of updating the Preview area at the moment (sneak preview), and what's immediately apparent is the low level of implementation of the new CSS 3 features across the major browsers. As IE6 is still the most widely-us

Styling figures with CSS3

Excerpt: I've written a number of posts about CSS3 on my personal blog, so when I was asked to write on CSS3.info I jumped at the chance. To get the quick disclaimer out of the way, my day job is working for Opera Software as their Chief Web Opener. Any thoughts are my own, and any use of CSS3 properties d

Graceful Degradation

Excerpt: Graceful degradation means that your Web site continues to operate even when viewed with less-than-optimal software in which advanced effects don't work. Fluid Thinking, by Peter-Paul Koch With CSS 3 so tantalisingly close (and yet so far away!), it's fun to play around with some of the new

Opera 9.5 races ahead with CSS 3 support

Excerpt: Opera have just announced version 9.5 of their desktop browser, currently codenamed 'Kestrel' - and as you can see from the screenshot they've chosen, it passes the CSS 3 selectors test with flying colours! They mention that CSS 3 support will be improved (text-shadow is provided as an example),

border-radius: Safari vs Mozilla

Excerpt: With the release of Safari 3, there are now two browsers with (browser-specific) implementations of border-radius; unfortunately, the two implementations are different. The problem is that there is an unresolved ambiguity in the CSS 3 working draft. The draft proposes four declarations, which des