Interview: Andy Budd on the future of CSS
Andy Budd is a well-known figure in the world of web development. If you haven’t heard him speak at one of the many conferences he attends (or even the one he helps organise), you may have read his book CSS Mastery or one of the many articles he has written.
Recently we mentioned Andy’s call for [...]
8 May 2007 in Browsers, Interviews, Modules, W3C
Calculated values and CSS2.2
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 calculations; I’ve thought for a [...]
12 April 2007 in CSS3 Previews, Modules
More type control with CSS3 Fonts
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 [...]
22 March 2007 in Declarations, Modules, News, W3C
CSS Text Level 3 Rides Again
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 later, and the renamed CSS Text Level 3 has been [...]
7 March 2007 in CSS3 Previews, Modules, W3C
Some CSS3 tools
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 choose which browsers display in the table, which makes it [...]
16 February 2007 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews, Modules
Updated Working Draft
The W3C has updated the working draft of the CSS3 module — Generated Content for Paged Media.
Vendor specific extensions to CSS3
Some of you might have noticed that this site is not valid CSS, which is of course a tid bit weird for a site as this… There’s a reason for this though. New CSS3 features are often “tested” by browser manufacturers by implementing them as vendor specific extensions. These are allowed by both CSS2.1 and [...]
4 January 2007 in Modules
How we’ll lay out websites in 2016 – Part Two
In my previous post I don’t think I put enough emphasis on the fact that the Advanced Layout method may never happen; it could be dropped by the W3C, never implemented by the browser makers, or replaced by a better method.
However, let’s work on the assumption that it does get implemented and take a closer [...]
12 December 2006 in Modules
How we’ll lay out websites in 2016
The difficulty many developers face when they start moving to table-less sites is getting the layout to work. Floats and positioning are easy enough for basic layouts, but start to become incredibly complex when moving to a more advanced level. When the push to move to pure CSS layouts became intense, the problem was – [...]
30 November 2006 in Modules
IE.next to support CSS3 colours?
The Internet Explorer team are asking (again) for input on most-wanted improvements for the next version of IE. Most of the work seems as if it will be focused on Javascript and the DOM, but as you can see on this wishlist there are also requests for CSS updates – including support for RGBA, HSL [...]
