Comments on: New text-shadow demo

By: Multiple Shadows on Fire! « MilkHub

Multiple Shadows on Fire! « MilkHub — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:38:06 +0000

[...] de Valk wrote: Kornel mailed me today with an addition to the text-shadow preview page, that looks quite good :). He noted that the Safari implementation of text-shadow is a bit poor, as [...]

By: dvessel

dvessel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:55:51 +0000

The final release of FF 3 is out and text shadow is not in. :( It is a nice release regardless.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:45 +0000

Aht hx guys, had the tags the wrong way around there ;)

By: Dave Woods

Dave Woods — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:42:18 +0000

I presume Arjan is talking about this page

http://www.css3.info/preview/text-shadow/

In the first sentence the code for the link to “text-shadow” is actually being displayed as apposed to being in the HTML. Displays the same for me in all browsers. ;)

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:06:17 +0000

@Arjan: which browser are you using?

@Robin: I have a pretty high esteem of our uses, and don’t think they’d use it wrongly :) this is obviously not a way to display big amounts of text :)

By: David Storey

David Storey — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:18:10 +0000

Acid 2 was so yesterday :)

Yeah, the off by 1px s a big problem for us (Opera) as Safari implemented it first so most sites obviously tested in Safari. That makes many of the text with text-shadow look plain ugly (like double text). This site used to have it on the menu items for example.

Opera has had multiple text shadows from the start (and I’d assume box shadpws when that comes), but I never thought of a good use case for it. I was thinking more along the lines of shadows going in different directions. The demo looks cool though. You can probably do some cool affects that make t text look like it glows, like when blue light is behind in on shop fronts and such.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:00:26 +0000

Joost: obviously neither of these is a problem for the demo. It’s just that demo techniques tend to escape into the real world where they stay for decades.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:26:01 +0000

Bug report: the link in the first paragraph at the text-shadow is marked-up as an code-element. So, your link doesn’t work and is displayed quite ugly.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:48:29 +0000

@Robin: trust me, I know my SEO, and this is no problem at all. The white on white is there on purpose as it’s a demo, so I’m not too worried about accessibility either to be honest.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:17:56 +0000

The only notable CSS features I’ve seen confirmed for FF3 are display: inline-block, and rgba/hsla colors.

Well, and Acid2 compliance, if you consider that a feature. :-) It seems that they decided to focus on fixing bugs and filling longstanding gaps (like inline-block, which is going to be incredibly useful), rather than pushing ahead on new stuff. I have to admit, after getting virtually no new CSS tools in Firefox 2, I was hoping for something a bit more radical in Firefox 3.