The Current State of CSS 3
I’ve got a new post up at CSS3.info, which asks the question: What CSS 3 Can You Easily Use Right Now? The short answer is: none of it. Read the post for a more detailed explanation.
I’ve got a new post up at CSS3.info, which asks the question: What CSS 3 Can You Easily Use Right Now? The short answer is: none of it. Read the post for a more detailed explanation.
This is an idea I first read about in Andy Clarke’s excellent book, Transcending CSS (if you don’t have a copy already, you should really think about getting one), and was then reinforced by Jon Hicks’ presentation at @media 2007, How To Be A Creative Sponge. In both cases, they suggest using magazine layouts as inspiration for web design; I decided to go one step further, and rip off the design completely.
As you may be aware, I write for CSS3.info every now and again. Joost, the brains behind the site, rewards me for my work by sending me the occasional web development book; I’d do it for free, to be honest (don’t tell him that, please), but it’s a nice little bonus.
The latest book I’ve received is The Art & Science of CSS by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook. The subtitle — Create Inspirational, Standards-Based Web Designs, sums up very nicely what it’s all about.
For no particular reason other than idle curiosity, I made a demo of a broken neon sign, using CSS Animations (you’ll need Firefox 5, Safari or Chrome to see it). It doesn’t degrade well at the moment, the root cause of which is down to what I think is a bug in Firefox’s implementation — I’ll need to confirm that.
One quick learning from making this: it would be really useful to have CSS Mixins when using a lot of repetitive keyframes, as I do in this animation. The W3C seem to be quite against them, however.
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