Reflecting on CSS3…
CSS3 Image Reflections have been around for quite some time. Back when I was parsing out the iTunes website to get the latest statistics, I came across my application’s image without the reflection, shadow or other styles which made my icon really pop. This of course made me wonder how they were doing it without [...]
Firefox 3.5 – Fonts, clean and crisp
I found an article relating to @font-face css rules, read it in Firefox 3, and then decided to look at the same page in my VM instance of Firefox 3.5. The difference was staggering, and yet very slight. Firefox 3 looks very grainy and even pixelated where Firefox 3.5 looks crisp, like an Arial font should look.
Are you afraid of Shadows? Part 2
So now one must wonder if Internet Explorer will try to catch up, or if we will continue to require our web developers to handicap the abilities and speed of their websites just to appease the MANY users of Microsoft’s always behind browser.
Are you afraid of shadows?
Have you ever wondered how iTunes manages all those cool effects with the iPhone App images? The neat text shadows and box shadows for images, the curved corners… I thought it was something they were using an image tool for, but the more I looked at the feeds, the more I noticed that the the [...]
Graceful Degredation – What does it really mean?
It goes hand in hand with unobtrusive javascript, and really is just another name for the same thing. Here are some quotes from some decent articles on the subject: from Dan’s Web Tips by Daniel Tobias “Graceful Degradation” is an important principle in Web design. It means that, when you put in features designed to [...]
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