May 2010 Archives - Broken Links Archive

I hope you’ll forgive a little self-promotion, as I’d just like to play a few quick notes on my own trumpet. The latest issue of Net magazine is now on sale, and features a tutorial article, Create A Dynamic Content Panel, written by me.

In the article I explain how to build a dynamic Contact area, as we did on our recent redesign of Preloaded.com, using the Web Storage API and the BBC’s Glow Javascript library.

I’m not sure what the rights situation is with this article, but I hope that at some point in the future I’ll be able to post it here on my blog. But in the meantime, you can buy a copy of Net magazine in the UK at all good newsagents, as the saying goes (I don’t know if it will be in overseas editions also).

On the subject of print, I’m also currently writing a book about CSS3 which should be published later this year. I’ll have more information on that nearer the time.

The latest nightly releases of what will become Firefox 4 have implemented a couple of experimental new CSS features. The –moz-calc function allows calculations on length values, and the :-moz-any selector permits grouping of simple selectors.

If you have a nightly build of Firefox you can see a little demo I’ve put together of them in action.

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