A List Apart article: Every time you call a proprietary feature “CSS3″, a kitten dies
My first article in ALA was published today, read it here: Every time you call a proprietary feature “CSS3″, a kitten dies Some comments about it on twitter:
Author Archives: Lea Verou
Vendor prefixes, the CSS WG and me
The CSS Working Group is recently discussing the very serious problem that vendor prefixes have become. We have reached a point where browsers are seriously considering to implement -webkit- prefixes, just because authors won’t bother using anything else. This is just sad. Daniel Glazman, Christian Heilmann and others wrote about it, making very good points [...]
Moving an element along a circle
It all started a few months ago, when Chris Coyier casually asked me how would I move an element along a circle, without of course rotating the element itself. If I recall correctly, his solution was to use multiple keyframes, for various points on a circle’s circumference, approximating it. I couldn’t think of anything better [...]
Simpler CSS typing animation, with the ch unit
A while ago, I posted about how to use steps() as an easing function to create a typing animation that degrades gracefully. Today I decided to simplify it a bit and make it more flexible, at the cost of browser support. The new version fully works in Firefox 1+ and IE10, since Opera and WebKit [...]
Exactly how much CSS3 does your browser support?
This project started as an attempt to improve dabblet and to generate data for the book chapter I’m writing for Smashing Book #3. I wanted to create a very simple/basic testsuite for CSS3 stuff so that you could hover on a e.g. CSS3 property and you got a nice browser support popup. While I didn’t achieve [...]
Why tabs are clearly superior
If you follow me on twitter or have heard one of my talks you’ll probably know I despise spaces for indentation with a passion. However, I’ve never gone into the details of my opinion on stage, and twitter isn’t really the right medium for advocacy. I always wanted to write a blog post about my [...]
My new year’s resolution
Warning: Personal post ahead. If you’re here to read some code trickery, move along and wait for the next post, kthxbai Blogs are excellent places for new year’s resolutions. Posts stay there for years, to remind you what you’ve been thinking long ago. A list on a piece of paper or a file in your [...]
What we still can’t do client-side
With the rise of all these APIs and the browser race to implement them, you’d think that currently we can do pretty much everything in JavaScript and even if we currently can’t due to browser support issues, we will once the specs are implemented. Unfortunately, that’s not true. There are still things we can’t do, [...]
Dabblet blog
Not sure if you noticed, but Dabblet now has a blog: blog.dabblet.com I’ll post there about Dabblet updates and not flood my regular subscribers here who may not care. So, if you are interested on Dabblet’s progress, follow that blog or @dabblet on twitter. That was also an excuse to finally try tumblr. So far, [...]
On web apps and their keyboard shortcuts
Yesterday, I released dabblet. One of its aspects that I took extra care of, is it’s keyboard navigation. I used many of the commonly established application shortcuts to navigate and perform actions in it. Some of these naturally collided with the native browser shortcuts and I got a few bug reports about that. Actually, overriding [...]