The No-Pressure Introduction to CSS3 | Onextrapixel - Web Design & Development Magazine It's difficult to escape the hype surrounding CSS3 at the moment, yet it has created a divide in the community. If you read any blog post on the subject and it is flooded with comments by developers who feel they still cannot use CSS3 in their work. Rather than being encouraging the responses from the experts in our community can appear as aggressive and superior. In this article I'll try to cover some of the more widely adopted CSS3 advancements, showing you not only how to use them but also the support you will likely expect from the major browsers. Why We Can Use CSS3 Now The arguments as to why we cannot use CSS3 include such things as the specification not being finalised or that some elements of CSS3 are either poorly supported or not supported at all. Whether you call it Progressive Enhancement, Graceful Degradation or Hardboiled it doesn't matter really, so long as you accept that a website doesn't need to look the same in all browsers. Vendor Prefixes So Some Actual CSS3 Examples
23 Essential HTML 5 Resources Editor’s Note: Bruce Lawson will be doing a 1-hour tutorial called “How to build a HTML5 Web site” at the FOWD Tour. Everyone is excited about the possibilities of HTML 5, but there’s a lot to learn and absorb as well. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of articles to get you started! Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today! – A great beginning overview of HTML 5Wikipedia: HTML 5 – A basic overview from WikipediaHTML 5 Cheat Sheet – A great quick guide to HTML 5 as a printable PDFHTML 5 Demos – A great set of demos. People to follow These are the folks that are at the center of HTML 5 … Ian Hickson (@hixie) – Editor of HTML 5 Spec.
CSS drop-shadows without images Drop-shadows are easy enough to create using pseudo-elements. It’s a nice and robust way to progressively enhance a design. This post is a summary of the technique and some of the possible appearances. Demo: CSS drop-shadows without images Known support: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 5+, Safari 5+, Opera 10.6+, IE 9+ I’ll be looking mainly at a few details involved in making this effect more robust. After a bit of back-and-forth on Twitter with Simurai, and proposing a couple of additions to Divya’s and Matt’s demos using jsbin, I felt like documenting and explaining the parts that make up this technique. The basic technique There is no need for extra markup, the effect can be applied to a single element. The pseudo-elements need to be positioned and given explicit or implicit dimensions. The next step is to add a CSS3 box-shadow and apply CSS3 transforms. One of the pseudo-elements then needs to be positioned on the other side of the element and rotated in the opposite direction.
CSS3 Animations I recently wrote about CSS3 Transitions and the next step for that is sort of CSS Transitions on steroids: CSS3 Animations (CSS Animations Module Level 3 specification). What are CSS Animations? CSS Animations offers a more detailed way to control animations, the number of times it should iterate and property values at certain keyframes. A simple example Let’s take a look at the code for a simple CSS3 Animations example: 01..animation-container { 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 09. 10. from { 11. width: 200px; 12. background: #f00; 13. opacity: 0.5; 14. 16. to { 17. width: 400px; 18. background: #ffffa2; 19. opacity: 1; 20. There are a number of new things we see above. The most interesting part here is the animation name, which is, contrary to what you might believe, any name of your choosing. In this example, the element will rotate to being straight, fade in and become twice as wide at the end of the animation. Using keyframe values and iteration-count 02. height: 60px; 03. padding: 10px; 05. 08. 10. width: 200px;
15 Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Templates and Frameworks CSS3 and HTML5 are two of the coolest things to come along within web design for a very very a long long time. Whats not to love? And the best thing of all? The major browsers are now catching up and giving support. Below you will find a collection of visually basic templates, but with all of them fully packed and enriched with CSS3 and HTML5 goodness. On top of all these templates you will also find a couple of HTML5 powered CSS3 frameworks. HTML5 Basic Template Pack This template has been heavily inspired by the Smashing Magazine HTML 5 template tutorial, however the (CSS & Design) has been modified in several ways. RamblingSoul 19 CSS3 Template Cherry Blossoms HTML5 & CSS3 Ampersand HTML5 You can choose from either the two column or three versions of this HTML5 template. Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio (Template and Tutorial) Nearly Circular CSS3 The template displays a taster of what is to come from the CSS3 spec, mostly the lovely rounded corners and @font-face. Cardeo Three CSS3
CSS3 Create - Démos, tutoriels et expériences CSS : menus, galerie photos, interfaces web. An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations - Smashing Coding Advertisement By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module1 in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design. Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can create smooth, maintainable animations that perform relatively well and that don’t require reams of scripting. It’s just another way that CSS3 is helping to solve a real-world problem in an elegant manner. In this article, we’ll cover all the important parts of the syntax, and we’ll fill you in on browser support so that you’ll know when to start using it. A Simple Animated Landscape Scene For the purpose of this article, I’ve created a simple animated landscape scene to introduce the various aspects of the syntax. (NOTE: Versions of Safari prior to 5.1 have a bug that prevents the animation from finishing correctly. The @keyframes At-Rule Here’s the @ rule we’ll be using: Shorthand
The Future of HTML 5 At FOWA London 2009 Bruce Lawson gave an introduction to HTML 5 and how it might be used in the future. The HTML 5 spec was originally called “Web Applications 1.0″. Most of the attention has been on the new markup elements, but in his talk he takes a further look at the applications side of the spec, covering: Dynamic images and graphs with canvas Eliminating much forms validation with webforms 2.0 Local storage automagically saving your data Geolocation Building toolbars and menus. Editor’s Note: We’ll be covering “How HTML 5 is Going to Completely Change your Web App” at The Future of Web Apps in Miami. You can jump straight to the video, view the slides, read the transcript (thanks @joeloverton for doing this!) Other useful resources: There are some great beginner canvast tutorials on the Opera Developer: The video Full transcription available at joeloverton.com/html5. The slides
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Pure CSS Timeline – Notebook | MattBango.com I wanted to build a CSS timeline for the “About” section of my site while using some clean and simple markup. I wanted to avoid using images as much as possible, so I spent a few minutes prototyping some options and came up with a solution using unordered lists. The result is a simple and clean looking timeline with some very straight forward markup. In this article I’ll share my approach to creating a timeline out of CSS and HTML which results in a nice looking, simple timeline. Introduction First and foremost, is the solution I’m about to share with you the best solution? What are we building? Let’s take a look at a screenshot of the timeline that we’re building in this tutorial. We have a nice looking timeline styled completely with CSS, but what happens if the visitor doesn’t have CSS enabled? What would make this better is if the labels for the x-axis of the timeline would work better with the timeline block labels. The Markup I chose to use a unordered list implementation. The CSS