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Andy Clarke suggests a great little question you can pose to clients:
What would you prefer me to do?
Spend my time hacking around issues in older technologies like Internet Explorer 6 or would you like that time spent making the site look the best that it can on better desktop browsers, as well as on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry and a whole host of other mobile devices?
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jacob: I always have to stop and think when setting a border radius in CSS, so I built a tool for it: border-radius.com.
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A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
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We’re Ready for CSS3, but are we Ready for CSS3?:
Jonathan Christopher walks through some of his favorite CSS3 features, like border-radius, text-shadow, and multiple background images, before diving into his real thesis: The usefulness of these features when dealing with real-world clients.
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“CSS3 is where things are headed, and portions of it are here now. It’s not all or nothing, either. Sprinkle CSS3 in. Don’t tell your boss or client. Have fun with it, prototype with it, embrace it. Don’t be afraid to start using CSS3 right now.”
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Web Development for the iPhone: HTML, CSS & JS Support:
A very comprehensive list of selectors, CSS3 features, and HTML5 elements featured on the iPhone.
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CSS3 Box-Shadow with Inset Values:
GirlieMac takes a look at the inset flag for CSS3 box-shadows, which provides an easy way to add highlights or shadows to buttons. It unfortunately doesn’t work on Safari 4, though it is in the WebKit nightlies.
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shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.
I’ve added a little tweak to work for C|Net News.com on my copy:
/* C|Net */ .commentwrapper { display: none !important; }Also, an alert to any Tumblr users whose themes include
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A must see: Roll over the DVD covers on the homepage for some kick-ass WebKit CSS animations.
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Prices and plans design patterns:
Andy Clarke covers the design of a “Prices and Plans” page from concept to code and really demonstrates some great progressive enhancement using CSS3.
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“A green army base with a red laser beam,
Or a medieval castle for my stealth RE-CON team?
A similar thrill just came back to me
When I was introduced to CSS Three.”
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A WebKit primer part 2 - CSS transitions: Wolfire blog posts a quick demo highlighting benefits of CSS transitions and a few samples.
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Animations, Transitions and 3D Transforms demo: A new demo from webkit.org showing off the 3D transform capabilities in Snow Leopard’s Safari. Even more impressive is that it also works on the iPhone.
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3d Safari Sites: The recently released Snow Leopard finally brings 3d transitions to Safari (also available in WebKit on Leopard). This site provides a list of sites which demonstrate this impressive new feature.
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A new videocast from Nettuts+ on a variety of CSS3 techniques, including animations, masking, and reflections.
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