Yup, HTML 6 and CSS4 announced today. All major browsers agree to fully support on day one.
While we wait for HTML5 and CSS3 to be finalized and deal with the sluggish support in all major browsers, the WWW Consortium has announced the new versions. They also mention that all major browsers are to support the features and render the same on all devices and promise no more hacks or the need to target browsers specifically. It was also noted that all major browsers would do a “force upgrade” of all browsers in use today. W3 said that the plan to eradicate old browsers still in use today involved a 2 year discussion with all major the browsers (IE, Fire Fox, Safari, Chrome, Etc…) on the best approach. What was decided was to simply render the old browsers useless and force the user to upgrade.
If you develop websites on either Windows or the Mac and use a virtual Windows OS program (like parallels), you might want to take a peek at IETester from DebugBar. The free tool is an all in one web browser that renders and uses the JavaScript engines for versions of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP.
One of the nice options in CSS3 is border-radius. It will allow you to create rounded corners for elements such as divs. This feature is supported in Mozilla/Firefox and Safari 3. IE users will still see the the border, it just won’t be rounded.
CSS3 Rounded Corners
Demo 1 – All Corners Rounded
The CSS
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<style type="text/css">
<!--
#roundeddemo1 {
background-color:#B00;
/*Mozilla Based Browsers*/
-moz-border-radius:5px;
/*Webkit Based Browsers*/
-webkit-border-radius:5px;
border:1pxsolid#B00;
padding:20px;
color:#FFF;
}
-->
</style>
The HTML
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<div id="roundeddemo1">
Demo1-All Corners Rounded
</div>
CSS3 Partial Rounded Corners.
You can even take it a step further and specify specific corners to be rounded.
I found this a great resource in moving from Classic ASP to PHP (or vice verse for that matter). It is a three part article from language basics, functions, classes and ASP object equivalents. Very handy.
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I am not sure who came up with this little nugget. I have seen it around a few times, but who ever you are, I love you…
If you ever have the need to share blocks via an HTML page (like this blog) that others will copy and paste from, use the CSS style below. Your web visitors will appreciate it. Plus, it will also keep your design from exploding due to long lines of code.
