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Thread: FYI: Firefox 3.1 alpha 1
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cboudy
Advanced Member Joined: May 26, 2006 Post Count: 1757 Status: Offline |
I don't know how they keep on making better but they do: article here . From article: Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 also has some great stuff for web developers. The Gecko rendering engine got some long-awaited CSS3 features like text-shadow, box-shadow, and border images. The shadow features have been around for a long time in Opera and WebKit and are also part of the Acid3 test. Another significant addition is the HTML5 Canvas text API. This is an area where Firefox seems to be a bit ahead of the curve?the Canvas text functions are still in the draft stage and aren't implemented by other browsers yet. |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6285 Status: Offline |
That is good news? Great, now every newbie is gonna start wanting to use text shadow (likely a bad idea accessibility wise...) or box shadow and then we get all sorts of questions here about why it does not work in IE or Safari... not to mention that is the typical gimicky stuff that will get used to death and CSS3 is not even a standard yet. Sure if browsers support CSS3 generally before it is standardized, it wou;ld be a nice step forward rather than the usual CSS 3+ years ahead of the browsers... but there are some CSS things more important than gimicks like shadows, we need an easy way to do 3 column, matching column layouts and a number of other things. As for HTML5, there are things that are pretty solid in HTML5 that will not change much and should be supported, but a draft element? Have to agree with the article, seems a bit to soon. I have not read it yet but will, any mention of XHTML 5 support? |
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cboudy
Advanced Member Joined: May 26, 2006 Post Count: 1757 Status: Offline |
Great, now every newbie is gonna start wanting to use text shadow (likely a bad idea accessibility wise...) Agreed. I really just wanted to highlight the CSS3 fact. No mention of XHTML 5 support but like you said HTML 5 is still way off in the wind. |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6285 Status: Offline |
I do hope that programming browsers for the current stable version of future standards stays around. IE just now supports CSS1 more or less completely... only took... 8 years? |
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