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Which is really sad, because SVG is awesome. It lets you do what CSS gradients do and much more, in quite a small filesize, as it’s just text too. However, the browser needs to generate a DOM for every SVG graphic, which results in sluggishness. Here’s my test case Mouse over the 2 divs. They both [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, in addition to my talk at Fronteers 2011, I’ll also be holding a full day workshop the day before the conference. The title of that workshop is “CSS3 for developers” and I wanted to explain a bit what it’s going to be about and why I chose to target web [...]
We all know about the proprietary (and imho, horrible) -webkit-box-reflect. However, you can create just as flexible reflections in Firefox as well, by utilizing -moz-element(), some CSS3 and Firefox’s capability to apply SVG effects to HTML elements. And all these are actually standards, so eventually, this will work in all browsers, unlike -webkit-box-reflect, which was [...]
It’s supposed to be used by 2 people taking turns (click twice for the other sign). Basic idea: It uses hidden checkboxes for the states (indeterminate means empty, checked means X, not checked means O) and labels for the visible part When it starts, a little script (the only js in the demo) sets the [...]
Last week, I was in London to give 2 talks. The first one was last Thursday, in one of the conferences I wanted to go ever since I learned my first CSS properties: Web directions @media. The second one was 2 days later in a smaller event called Standards.next.
I’ve been using this trick for quite a while, but I never thought to blog about it. However, I recently realized that it might not be as common as I thought, so it might be a good idea to document it in a blog post. If you follow the discussions on www-style, you might have [...]
Lately there has been a rise in the usage of CSS preprocessors such as LESS and SASS, which makes sense given the simultaneous increase of CSS3 usage. I’ve frequently argued with fellow front-end web developers about whether they should be used or not and I decided to finally put my thoughts in writing. To start, [...]
A while ago, I wrote a post on creating simple patterns with CSS3 gradients. A common pattern I was unable to create was that of a regular, non-rotated checkerboard. However, I noticed today that by giving a different background-position to every triangle in the pattern tile, a checkerboard can be easily created: View in Gecko [...]
The original idea belongs to André Luís, but I think it could be improved to be much less verbose. André’s solution is like this: /* one item */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(1) { width: 100%; } /* two items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(1) { width: 50%; } /* three items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(3), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(3):nth-last-child(1) { width: 33.3333%; } /* [...]
Just a quick note to let you know I’m speaking at this year’s @media Web Directions conference, which will take place during May 26–27 in London, UK. I’m very excited about this, since I always considered @media one of the top front-end conferences in the industry The title and abstract of my talk is as follows: [...]