Posts Tagged ‘design’

CSS gradients

June 6th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in CSS3, Faster websites, Front-end development

CSS gradients promise a great leap forward for the graphical capabilities of CSS. A CSS gradient is in fact a browser-generated image, consisting of smooth fades between several colors. Letting CSS create these will decrease download times and allows for many new interesting DHTML possibilities.

Both linear and radial gradients are supported by the new CSS specifications. At the time of writing CSS gradients are supported by Mozilla and Webkit browsers but Internet explorer offers something similar in it’s usual non-compliant manner.
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CSS multi column text

May 23rd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 provides a new collection of column properties that allow you to easily distribute a HTML container’s textual content over multiple vertical columns. At the time of writing this property is supported by Mozilla and Webkit browsers, and -moz / -webkit vendor prefixes are still needed.

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CSS3 rounded corners

April 3rd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 finally delivers specifications for the rounding of corners. CSS 3 allows you to specify a radius for the corners of an element. This offers the promise of no longer having to use awkward rounded corner / border hacks based on images or CSS / JavaScript for such a simple graphic effect.

At the time of writing Internet Explorer’s latest version (8) still doesn’t support this feature in any way. Also CSS vendor prefixes are still necessary for Mozilla (FireFox) and WebKit (Safari/Chrome) based browsers. Surely the vendor-specific prefixes and syntactical quirks will also disappear once the application of this CSS3 feature becomes more commonplace.

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