News on improvements and new additions to the CSS3 Preview section on this site.
Excerpt: I'm at @media 2007 at the moment, and just watched a very interesting presentation by Håkon Wium Lie - who, as we know, wrote the original specification for CSS, 13 years ago. In his presentation he talked about Opera on different platforms, then went into the future of HTML and CSS, talking abo
Excerpt: The header of my own blog (still in development; please don't judge me!) features a single image which spans two columns, with a semi-opaque panel featuring text over the top of it. I wanted the image to be clearly visible in the left column, and faintly visible in the central column. I could have d
Excerpt: Andy Budd gave a talk at this year's Highland Fling web conference on the subject The Future of CSS (direct PDF download, 1.3MB). Readers of this site will be familiar with most of the content (although it's still worth reading), but two things stood out for me: First, the use of simple calcul
Excerpt: Back in May 2003, the CSS3 Text Module made it to Candidate Recommendation status, meaning: [The] W3C believes the specification is ready to be implemented. Before it made the next step to Proposed Recommendation status, however, it was decided that a complete overhaul was needed. Four years l
Excerpt: My client wanted a page showing photographs of all their staff, and the design called for them to be semi-opaque against the page background, going fully opaque on mouseover, like so: What would be the best way to do this? One would be to make an image sprite of the images two states:
