Posts Tagged ‘css property

Isn’t it fun that we get to play with the latest CSS techniques, like shadows and transitions? There’s only one problem: how do we compensate, or more importantly, detect the browsers that do not support them? Well, there’s a few solutions. In this tutorial and screencast, though, we’ll create a JavaScript function that will accept [...]

Let’s get real for a second here. As far as web languages go, CSS is arguably the simplest. I mean, really, what could be easier than a simple list of properties affecting an element? And the syntax is almost like written English. Want to change the font size? There’s a font-size CSS property. How about [...]

WebINK Font Embedding by Extensis: Another entry into the font embedding market, this one by Extensis. Fonts foundries currently include Mark Simonson Studio, Porchez Typofonderie, TypeTogether, URW, and exljbris. One nice feature seems to be the ability to control kerning within your font settings rather than just through the letter-spacing CSS property. I’m not certain, [...]

Sisyphus, by Max Klinger. The four ladies up top are named Gecko, WebKit, Trident and Presto. Vendor-specific CSS prefixes have been popping up in all the shiny and fancy CSS 3 demos of late. Microsoft IE 9, Firefox and Safari have all been using them to show off their latest CSS tricks, and you’ve probably [...]

The Web used to be so simple. Browser request goes to server, where you do some work, and return some HTML. Then we got Ajax and finally web apps could have some semblance of UI responsiveness. Now we have richer HTML5 technologies to change expectations of our users once again. The Web is getting some [...]


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