selectors Archives


Firefox 3.1 is the latest to pass our selectors test

Excerpt: I've just put a pre-Alpha build of Firefox 3.1 through its paces, and can confirm (following David Baron's announcement) that it gets a score of 578/578 in our CSS3 Selectors Test, which means not only support for the new selectors, but some bugs fixed in existing ones. To put that score in perspect

Safari 3.1 pushes CSS3 support forward

Excerpt: Apple surprised a lot of people by releasing Safari 3.1 today (myself included!), and amongst its list of new & improved features (audio and video tags! SVG in img and background-image!) are two which will be of interest to readers of this blog: full CSS3 selectors support, and web fonts. The fir

CSS3 Selectors - new test

Excerpt: Daniel Glazman has created a new test to show CSS3 Selectors support in your browser. He has also posted results for current browsers. With this and the Acid 3 test, there's a lot for browser makers to aim for.

Tooltips with CSS3

Excerpt: As this is my first post, I'd like to introduce myself. My names James and I'm currently working as a senior User Interface Developer for Teachers TV. Like many of you guys, I'm fanatical about web standards and about creating the leanest, most semantic markup possible. I too am excited about the ne

Just how useful are CSS3 selectors?

Excerpt: Mozilla's John Resig has removed support for certain CSS3 selectors from the jQuery Javascript library, and says the fact that no-one has asked for them to be reintroduced is evidence that they aren't very useful: Now, I'm sure I'll probably get lots of feedback saying "but 'E + F' can be usefu