CSS Zen Garden reaches 10
As announced today by its creator Dave Shea, the CSS Zen Garden has reached the venerable age of ten years. When I first saw that site back in 2003, I was inspired by the possibilities of CSS.
Posts with tag ”css”
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On vendor prefixes
There has been a lot of discussions lately in regard to vendor prefixes. It all began when some non-webkit browser representatives were considering support of the webkit prefix during a CSS Working Group meeting earlier this week.
The adaptation of responsive design
Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed topic of last year. The term was coined by Ethan Marcotte in his article from May 2010.
Media queries and JavaScript
Mobile development and responsive design are frequently mentioned these days. The most widely used technique for responsive design is media queries, a CSS3 extension of the media types frequently used in HTML4 and CSS2.
Report from @media conference in London
The @media conference, or Web Directions as it is officially called these days, was once one of the pinnacles of web development. The celebrities of the web community gathered once a year and confirmed their positions as generals in the web standards war.
Embracing HTML5 and CSS3
The web is constantly changing and 2010 will be no different. Recently the Web Standards Project announced a change of direction, which really isn’t all that surprising. The “war for web standards” as Aaron Gustafson calls it is far from over.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
The popular ASP.NET framework comes with a set of pre-defined controls, which can speed up web development. Unfortunately many of the controls will produce a result which is less than optimal when it comes to accessibility and web standards.
Internet Explorer 7 has arrived
The release version of Internet Explorer 7 is now available for download. The final version has improved since the early CTP versions.
Using CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites were first introduced in 2004 by Dave Shea in the article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. The word “sprite” derives from the old 8-bit days where bitmaps were moved around the screen in games.
Creating a dropdown menu in CSS
Dropdown menus are often done with a lot of JavaScript but I wanted to do one using CSS. It is reasonably cross-browser and standards compliant.