CSS3 Preview Archives

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

Some CSS3 tools

Excerpt: First, here's another table showing CSS support in web browsers, including CSS3 declarations. Unfortunately the author only seems to have access to browsers that run in Windows, so it's not as complete as it could be. Interesting, nonetheless. Update: I stand corrected. There are options to choos

What we’ll lose with CSS3

Excerpt: We've been focussing a lot on what we will gain from CSS3, but of course we will lose some things too; namely, some of the CSS tricks we've come to rely on over the past few years. I'm thinking about some of the great techniques that have been developed to stylise the web, like the 'sliding doors

Thinking Dyslexic, :not()!

Excerpt: Sometimes it's difficult to figure out why we might need some aspects of CSS3. Like why would anyone ever need :not()? After all, it's like it works on elements we don't care to style. Why would we need that? Well, at some point we're bound to find ourselves styling a webpage with a lot of id's,

Transcending CSS - A new web essential

Excerpt: Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS is a book that anyone involved with client-side web development should read. For web designers who know some code there is plenty of forward thinking material about the importance of semantic HTML; for coders with an eye for design there is lots of food for thought

The Prince of CSS3 Selectors

Excerpt: Are you dying to play with some of those CSS3 features that Opera's implementing, or is it just me? Well, it turns out there's a way we can play with them already. There's a little program that takes XML+CSS and turns it into PDF's. It's called PrinceXML, which already supports all those wonder