Interactive CSS3 Lighting Effects
# Linked to 12 December 2011 in Other by Pat Dryburgh
An experiment by Tom Giannattasio in using CSS3 to create interactive lighting effects. Best viewed in Safari. (via Ben Bodien)
Read more at attasi.com →
CSS Mask-Image & Text
# Linked to 3 November 2011 in Code by Pat Dryburgh
There are currently 2 webkit CSS properties that I’ve grown to love and hope gain more traction & browser support. My favorite would have to be background-clip:text, but it currently degrades poorly. A close second is mask-image, which you can apply to text.
Read more at trentwalton.com →
CSS Drop-Shadows Without Images
# Linked to 8 April 2011 in Code by Pat Dryburgh
Drop-shadows are easy enough to create using pseudo-elements. It’s a nice and robust way to progressively enhance a design. This post is a summary of the technique and some of the possible appearances. (via Mark Forscher)
Read more at nicolasgallagher.com →
Create a vertically centred horizontal navigation
# Linked to 31 January 2011 in Tutorials by Sam Brown
There is a way to have a centred horizontal navigation without knowing an explicit width, and without adding CSS. It’s also remarkably easy.
Read more at csswizardry.com →
CSS background image hacks
# Linked to 17 January 2011 in Articles by Sam Brown
Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning. A few hacks relying on CSS pseudo-elements to emulate features unavailable or not yet widely supported by modern browsers.
Read more at nicolasgallagher.com →
3D Text
# Linked to 6 January 2011 in Code by Pat Dryburgh
It is unbelievable to me that this is created entirely with CSS. From Mark Otto: “3D text using nothing but CSS. No extra markup, no :before or :after mess, and no images. Just progressively enhancing CSS to add some flair to your work.”
Read more at markdotto.com →
Flexible Nav
# Linked to 30 December 2010 in Links by Levi Figueira
Remember when you needed Flash to create cool navigation menus? Ya, me neither… ;)
Read more at playground.deaxon.com →
Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom
# Linked to 21 December 2010 in Articles by Sam Brown
Read more at www.456bereastreet.com →
How To Create a Sweet CSS3 Vertical Navigation
# Linked to 17 December 2010 in Links by Levi Figueira
Pretty cool effect using no images or JS at all. :)
Read more at spyrestudios.com →
Webkit Clock
# Linked to 8 December 2010 in Links by Levi Figueira
Not just the clock, but everything on this page is awe-inspiring. What a great showcase of CSS3 and Webkit. It does use some JS, but no images are used (which is amazing considering what’s in it!).
Read more at onotakehiko.com →