CSS3

The Summer Holiday contest is getting better and better, over the last week i’ve been updating the initial post to reflect the prizes i added to the list. The first submissions are coming in, and more are coming up.

In other news, i’ve tweaked the layout a bit more, tell me what you think of it!

Yes, we are having a contest! We want to get you guys to help us, and we’re going to reward those who do it the best with some cool prizes!

As you can see, we have a new header pic, and some of the link colors on the site changed. The new header pic was created by Niels Leenheer, a friend of mine who did some work for Mozilla as well. He’s a cool dude, and i want to thank him here for taking the time to make this header pic!

Update: Ok it was altered a bit more, and we added a favicon and changed some layout. Looks better now imho :)

Update 2: Altered the layout some more, i’d like to hear your opinions!

Since installing Ubuntu Linux at home, I’ve had the opportunity to work with the Konqueror browser – possibly the most standards-compliant browser available today (please do correct me if I’m wrong).

Konqueror leads the way in the implementation of the CSS3 Selectors module – in the testing I’ve performed so far, only the :checked pseudo-class doesn’t seem to work.

I’ve updated the compatibility table so you can see for yourself how advanced this remarkable browser is; it’s just a shame that less than 1% of internet users choose it as their main navigator.

We’ve updated the compatibility table for the Selectors module to include the latest version of the Konqueror browser. Konqueror supports even more selectors than we currently have on the table, so the table will be expanded further shortly.

Håkon Wium Lie, the inventor of CSS answers some very interesting questions about the future of CSS in this article.

The latest WebKit nightlies support HSL and HSLA, thanks to David Carson and Sam Weinig for implementing it on my request :).

Probably the first CSS3 Module to become a full recommendation will be Selectors; the W3C CSS3 Roadmap reports that the date for release is March 2006, so it’s overdue already.

Due to the fact that it’s passed all the previous testing stages, many CSS3 Selectors have already been implemented in modern web browsers; Mozilla, Opera, Safari and IE7 all recognise at least a few of them.

We’re putting together a table of levels of CSS3 Selectors support in browsers; it’s still early and the testing is by no means exhaustive, but it should act as a good guide for those who want to start to implement CSS3 in their web pages.

Hello one and all, I’m Nicholas Shanks and have been helping out behind the scenes. My role is to build up the corpus of basic information about CSS Level 3 and how it has been developed, the W3C and WHATWG, and how everything in CSS3 came to be there.

To this end my first page has now gone live, detailing the current progress of each and every CSS 3 module through the vetting process. It allows you to see at a glance which modules are considered more complete. I hope you find it useful!

[tags]css level 3 modules, css3 modules, w3c, whatwg[/tags]

Update: Please see the note at the end of this article.

A potentially useful feature of CSS3 is the @font-face rule, which allows the developer to specify a font for the page that may not already be on the client’s system. Until now, most web sites have been developed with a small list of ‘web safe’ fonts – tahoma, verdana, etc, which are native to most operating systems.

@font-face will allow the browser to download a font for rendering the page; a link is given to either a remote site or a folder on the local site which the browser will access, download, install and render, so the site can be viewed in the way the designer desired.