Archive for HTML and CSS
SMIL animation of silly SVG bears
In the – possibly imaginary – battle between SVG and <canvas>, the former is likely to emerge as the winner, having a tremendous amount of geek power behind it. Nevertheless, it didn’t stop me from playing around, recently, with SVG’s animation specification: SMIL. Pronounced “smile” and meaning Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language, SMIL is a fairly [...]
“Bokeh” play with pure CSS gradients
It never ceases to amaze me what people can do with pure CSS. My buddy James pointed me to these lovely CSS experiments made by Román Cortés. The newly released Firefox 3.6, with its much longed-for and refined CSS gradient syntax, opens up even more possibilities. Gradients of course have been around for a while [...]
Image gallery with CSS3 transforms, transitions and more
Exciting times for CSS3. As of version 3.5, Firefox offers support for the box-shadow and transition properties. With 3.6 we get CSS3 gradients and multiple backgrounds and 3.7 promises to follow with the transition family of properties. Partly as a result, lovely CSS3 galleries have been cropping up lately, some with the help of jQuery, [...]