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IE conditional comments and asset load order
Yesterday I was experimenting with a few ideas for decreasing the start-up time of selectivizr (something I’ll be posting about in the future). Part of the testing process was to establish if the...
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I’ve been looking into ways to modify elements before DOMContentLoaded so that enhancements can be made as an element is rendered to the screen allowing users to begin interacting with a page even if...
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Here’s an alternative method for writing IE specific style rules without having to move them into separate files. The idea is to put your IE styles into a @media block that will only be applied in...
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The state of CSS 3D transforms
If you follow me on twitter you’ll know I’ve been experimenting with CSS 3D transforms to see how far I can push them. A while back I wrote a very simple first person demo built using HTML, CSS3 and a...
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Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
Last year I created a demo showing how CSS 3D transforms could be used to create 3D environments. The demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see...
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Targeting first and last rows in CSS grid layouts
I was recently asked is it possible to select every element in the last row of a grid containing an arbitrary number of items using CSS selectors? Not wanting to shy away from a challenge, I started...
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Calculating element vertex data from CSS transforms
CSS transforms make it easy to manipulate an element in 3D space without worrying about the complex maths involved. But what if you want do more than transform elements? How can you shade an element or...
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GPU text rendering in webkit
Webkit will render an element differently when the responsibility of painting it is passed from the CPU to the GPU. This switch can trigger unintended rendering artefacts which, although most obvious...
View ArticlePure CSS parallax scrolling websites
This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to create a pure CSS parallax scrolling website. Parallax is almost always handled with JavaScript and, more...
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