A really nice example of how a site can look stunning despite being built without the use of images and with only a single font (and Times New Roman at that!): Seed Conference. Just amazing.
Bonus Update: Jeff Croft’s Typography: Beyond the Font [PDF]
The W3C came under a lot of heavy flak last year for being slow, cumbersome, bureaucratic, etc; there were calls for a CSS2.2 (which I seconded) which rounded up all the existing implemented features, and for the CSS Working Group to be disbanded — a lighter, alternative task force, the CSS Eleven, was set up to try and make sense of it all. But as we’ve heard nothing from them in the six months since they were set up, I think the Eleven have found it’s not as easy as it looks.
The CSS WG has a new chair now, including the passionate Daniel Glazman, and it seems to be refocused and refreshed, which is good news; in his latest blog post, he says that the WG is aiming for RECs, RECs, RECs
. If that’s the case, maybe we can start to get excited.
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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