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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1, codenamed Namoroka (after the Namoroka National Park in Madagascar), was released as a nightly download yesterday on the 7th August 2009.
This latest developer test version of the popular browser, based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, offers increased support for CSS3, most notably background-size, CSS gradients, multiple background images along with support for the rem unit from the CSS3 values and units module.
The alpha release also completed our CSS3 selectors test with no problems, passing 578 out of 578 tests, and faired better than it’s predecessor in the Acid 3 test, scoring 94/100 (compared to 91/100 for Firefox 3.5.2).
You can download Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 from the following link:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/namoroka/alpha1/
or the latest nightly build from here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Update: Peter Gasston has put together a demo of some of these new features on his blog.
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[…] Firefox 3.5 is een tijdje uit en natuurlijk zit Mozilla niet stil. Zo kondigden ze het volgende aan: The alpha release also completed our CSS3 selectors test with no problems, passing 578 out of 578 tests, and faired better than it’s predecessor in the Acid 3 test, scoring 94/100 (compared to 91/100 for Firefox 3.5.2). Meer intel op css3.info. […]
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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Offers Increased Support for CSS3 – CSS3 . Info | Firefox News on Twitter says:Comment » August 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
[…] Continue reading here: Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Offers Increased Support for CSS3 – CSS3 . Info […]
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sergej says:Comment » August 8th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
That’s wrong link, the correct one is http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/namoroka/alpha1/
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>offers increased support for CSS3, most notably […] CSS gradients […]
Sounds good. However, is it currently -moz prefixed or not?
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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 incrementa la compatibilidad con CSS3 | CSSBlog ES says:Comment » August 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
[…] Vía | CSS3.info […]
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I’ve put together a quick demo of some of these new features; take a look in Firefox 3.6a1 or a recent Webkit browser, and resize the browser window a few times for maximum effect:
http://www.broken-links.com/2009/08/08/new-background-rules-in-firefox-3-6/
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@ sergej – thanks, i’ve updated the post.
@ Tenno – yes, the features currently require the -moz prefix, webkit also supports background size with the -wekbit prefix.
@ Peter – done, and thanks for the demo
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Emil Ivanov says:Comment » August 9th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Firefox 3.5 scores 93/100 on Acid3 not 91 as written in this article.
So Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 is with only one point more than 3.5.
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Opera 10b2, G Chrome 3.197.11 and Safari 4.02 – score 100% at CSS3 selectors test.
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@Nocoloz yet Opera still doesn’t support border-radius. That Acid score is not worth very much when it’s lacking in CSS3.
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Opera has been abstaining from CSS3 properties due to the difficulty of implementing them without a native vector graphics library.
GOOD NEWS THOUGH!
With Presto 2.3 Vega will debut making it much easier for the Opera team to finally implement some…ANY CSS3 properties.
It’s important to remember that Opera isn’t open source nor do they have endless amounts of capitol.
So whatever version Opera turns with Presto 2.3 (e.g. Opera 10.1 though I haven’t been able to confirm any solid number as Opera 10.0 is still in it’s second beta stage at this time) we’ll finally see Opera joins the ranks of Gecko and WebKit as far as introducing CSS3 property support. :)
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“The next major version of Opera Desktop after Opera 10 will likely skip Presto 2.3 (which is already finished) and move to Presto 2.4.”
http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/show.dml/3953056#comment9599557 -
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Stebs says:Comment » August 10th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
FYI, Fx 3.6a1 with smil enabled (svg.smil.enabled;true) scores 96 (down from 97 due to new regression). Not that this is really important though.
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Thanks for this. Nice to see Firefox picking up some of these new features although writing slightly different syntax for FF and Safari is a minor pain :)
Hope Firefox introduces CSS background masks and transitions soon!
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When do we get the new CSS3 properties without the “moz-” and “webkit-” prefixes? “border-radius”, etc. should be accepted per the CSS3 standard by now. It’s been in drafts since 2002, after all.
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[…] Mark Best on Sep.18, 2009, under CSS, Web Development As well as all the new CSS features we mentioned previously, Firefox 3.6* is gaining a brand new property value: image-rect. This allows you to clip an area of […]
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Grayson Peddie says:Comment » September 22nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Background resizing demo works under Google Chrome 3.0.192.21.
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[…] ко всем новым возможностям CSS, ранее нами упомянутым, Firefox 3.6* обретает свежайшее новое значение свойства: […]
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