CSS Menu Builder Selectivizr - CSS3 pseudo-class and attribute selectors for IE 6-8 Six Useful CSS3 Tools CSS3 continues to gain popularity as we’re seeing it used in more and more websites. However, there are still those out there that are holding out on learning it and using it. This is probably due to the fact that it’s not fully supported yet in all browsers. CSS3 Button Maker The CSS3 Button Maker gives you a number of sliders and color pickers to style your own CSS3 button. CSS3 Generator Select from a list of CSS3 properties, fill in a few parameters to fit your needs, and it spits out the generated code along with a live preview. CSS3 Please! CSS3 Please! CSS3 Gradient Generator The CSS3 Gradient Generator was created as a showcase of the power of CSS based gradients as well as a tool for developers and designers to generate a gradient in CSS. CSS3 Transforms CSS3 Transforms gives you a set of sliders to experiment with various transforms such as position, rotation, skew and more. CSS3 Selectors Test About the Author Related Posts 824 shares Top 5 Design Tools for Wireframing Read More
Making a Sleek Feed Widget With YQL, jQuery & CSS3 – Tutorialzine Martin Angelov You will be surprised at how much data is made available on the web through RSS or ATOM feeds – twitter searches, your latest diggs, Google Search alerts, your own blog categories and so much more. You just have to look for that orange icon and you’ll surely find a lot more precious data, just waiting to be put into use. Today we are making a sleek feed widget, that will fetch any feed and display it in your blog sidebar. You can set it up to show the latest posts from the different categories of your blog, your latest stumbles, or even people mentioning you on twitter. So go ahead, download the demo archive from the button above, and keep on reading.. Problem Solving Before stepping into development, we have to clarify for ourselves what we are aiming for, discuss some potential problems, and their solutions. Problem 1 – Fetching Feeds The widget is entirely front-end based, so we have to find a way to fetch the feeds directly with JavaScript. This is where YQL comes along.
CSS Text Wrapper CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Experienced developers understand that CSS3 can be added to new projects with progressive enhancement in mind. This ensures that content is accessible while non-supportive browsers fall back to a less-enhanced experience for the user. But developers could face a situation where a client insists that the enhancements work cross-browser, demanding support even for IE6. Opacity / Transparency I think all developers are baffled at why Internet Explorer still fails to support this very popular (albeit troublesome) property. The Syntax You really only need the second line, which works in all versions of Internet Explorer. The opacity value at the end of each IE line works basically the same way that the opacity property does, taking a number from 0 to 100 (the opacity property takes a two-digit number from 0 to 1, so “44″ for IE would be “0.44″ for the others). The Demonstration This is the same element without the opacity settings. The Drawbacks Rounded Corners (border-radius)
Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete I was sitting in a talk given by Facebook’s Jason Sobel at Velocity this year, when I was a bit surprised by an impassioned plea that he made at the tail end of the talk. To paraphrase, Jason said that CSS sprites require too much work for average web developers and that we should be pressuring the browser vendors to make this process easier. I was perplexed for a moment. First, I don’t think CSS sprites are all that complicated anymore, especially with tools like the online CSS Sprite Generator readily available. Second, CSS sprites only really have to be used for older browsers (looking at you, IE6 and IE7), as this problem is easily solved in other browsers by using data URIs. Jason’s epilogue made it even clearer to me that people still don’t understand the true power of data URIs and how they’ll transform web development going forward. The purpose of CSS sprites Before getting into how data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete, it helps to examine the problem that CSS sprites solved.