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: …
Excerpt: I don't mean to keep taking content from Opera's Chief Web Opener, David Storey, every week, it's just that he's written about CSS3 a lot, recently. In his latest update on the forthcoming browser revision (codenamed Kestrel), he says that two buggy selectors have been fixed, and they are confident …
Excerpt: The latest security update of Firefox, 2.0.0.2, provides a fix for a possible spoofing attack using the CSS3 cursor property. As far as I'm aware, this is the first known security hole which uses CSS3 properties; perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong.…
Excerpt: A quick run through the visitor logs of 10 websites I run or manage shows that Internet Explorer 7 usage is still growing, although it's slowed down considerably since the boom of December 2006 when Microsoft released it into the automatic update programme. Average share for the month of February…
