Steve Ballmer has, in the past, stated that he would be open to the idea of Internet Explorer dropping the Trident rendering engine in favor of the open-source Webkit. I, for one, would love it if this happens – Trident is the bane of web developers around the world. Simply stated, it is holding the [...]
Firefox 3.5, the recent release of the latest version of the Firefox web browser, now supports CSS transforms. CSS transforms are effects, such as scale, rotate and skew. This is a step forward for the Gecko rendering engine, but in plain terms, it still clearly lags behind webkit, which supports 2D and 3D CSS animations. [...]
Damn! It’s even faster now, AND a new version of Webkit! This brings Chrome up to at least the same Webkit version as Safari 4.
I’ve been working on some demonstrations on how to combine jQuery UI and CSS animations for some pretty neat effects. Not to pimp my other businesses too much or anything, but check out blaq design if you want to see an eCommerce site done up with jQuery UI as well.
I’ve been working a lot more on CSS animations lately. There’s not much documentation out there and what is available is incomplete, so working with them is definitely a bit of a chore. I’ve been creating some examples that are pretty cool and demonstrate some more difficult techniques. They only work in Safari and Chrome, [...]
I recently wrote of the merits of Opera 9.5, which is a truly pleasant browsing experience. However, and somewhat unexpectedly, Google just yesterday released a new browser, Chrome, which I believe changes the game. Being the browser junkie that I am, I downloaded it within hours of being released. From Google’s own admission, Chrome [...]
