CSS3

Tweet The Webkit team have certainly been busy recently; since we mentioned the introduction of web fonts, they’ve also implemented transformations and animations. Transformations, via the -webkit-transform property, allow you to scale, rotate and skew block elements; reader Ain Tohvri has put together an impressive test suite. At the moment this property doesn’t affect layout, […]

Tweet Mozilla, Safari 3 and Konqueror have experimental implementations of the CSS3 properties background-origin and background-clip. Opera has a stable implementation–based on the latest public version of the Background and Borders specification–in Opera Presto 2.3 based browsers. background-origin The background-origin property is used to determine how the background-position of a background in a certain box […]

Tweet Here’s the concluding part of our interview with Håkon (you can read the first part here). Name the top five CSS3 features you’d like all major browsers to support in their next major release. Here’s some of my favorites: Backgrounds and borders Media queries Multi-column layout Selectors Paged media Also, we must not forget […]

Tweet We’ve had some great interviews with luminaries of CSS-based design here on CSS3.info already, but this one is my personal favourite! Håkon Wium Lie, ‘the father of CSS’*, spared us some time to answer a few questions about the evolution of web design and the future of CSS. I’m so excited by this, I’ve […]

Tweet Since the move away from tables to CSS-based layouts, lists have become more important in producing semantic markup; in Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, he seems at times to be on the verge of saying all content can be marked up with lists! Yet the basic list itself is let down by the range of […]

Tweet I’m at @media 2007 at the moment, and just watched a very interesting presentation by Håkon Wium Lie – who, as we know, wrote the original specification for CSS, 13 years ago. In his presentation he talked about Opera on different platforms, then went into the future of HTML and CSS, talking about the […]

Tweet This post was written by fantasai on 23-5-2007 on her weblog, she e-mailed us and asked us to put it up here for the greater public to enjoy and be able to comment. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about the CSS Working Group and about how we’re closed, out-of-date, slow, and/or dysfunctional. […]

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Tweet Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3. We will try and showcase some of them on this page, when they get implemented in either Firefox, Konqueror, Opera or Safari/Webkit. Here they are: Borders border-color border-image border-radius box-shadow Backgrounds background-origin and background-clip background-size multiple backgrounds Color HSL colors HSLA colors […]

Tweet The powers that be have decided to split CSS3 into multiple ‘modules’, as the monolithic CSS2 would have become far too unwieldy when expanded to the degree that CSS3 has been. Splitting CSS into modules also allows the W3C to bring those modules up to Recommendation level at different rates. Following is a table […]