Listing of CSS3 Modules’ Status

Excerpt: 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, d…

@font-face: fonts the way you want them

Excerpt: 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 sa…

Added a preview page: HSL color

Excerpt: A new preview page has been added, for HSL values in the Color module. So far, only Mozilla-based browsers support this feature. Update: Also added HSLA values; only supported in Firefox 3 pre-Alpha. [tags]css3, hsl, hsla, firefox, mozilla[/tags]…

Added a preview page: text-overflow

Excerpt: Just a small note: i have added text-overflow to the preview pages. Mostly unsupported at this time, it could be very useful though.…

Why and when browsers prefix CSS3 features

Excerpt: Since i've started with my CSS3 preview pages, i've had the same question at least 10 times already: why do browsers prefix CSS3 features? It seems so weird, when both WebKit and Firefox have border-radius implemented, you have to write two lines for it to work in both browsers. The reason for th…