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Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By : Sandro Paganotti
Book Image

Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By: Sandro Paganotti

Overview of this book

CSS3 unveils new possibilities for frontend web developers: things that would require JavaScript, such as animation and form validation, or even third party plugins, such as 3D transformations, are now accessible using this technology."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" contains ten web projects fully developed using cutting edge CSS3 techniques. It also covers time saving implementation tips and tricks as well as fallback, polyfills, and graceful degradation approaches.This book draws a path through CSS3; it starts with projects using well supported features across web browsers and then it moves to more sophisticated techniques such as multi polyfill implementation and creating a zooming user interface with SVG and CSS. React to HTML5 form validation, target CSS rules to specific devices, trigger animations and behavior in response to user interaction, gain confidence with helpful tools like SASS, learn how to deal with old browsers and more."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" is a helpful collection of techniques and good practices designed to help the implementation of CSS3 properties and features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Zooming User Interface

In this chapter, we'll learn how to create a simple ZUI. This acronym stands for a zooming user interface; a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more or less detail. For this project, we'll create a ZUI to let users move and explore an infographic, which is a visual graphic representation of data, information, or knowledge. The project we are going to build combines many CSS3 features, such as transitions, transformations, and Flexible Box Layout. It also introduces SVG and the various methods we can use to embed them in an HTML page. Additionally, as an extra challenge, we will also enable our page to perform on older browsers and will explore clever ways to accomplish this task.

The following is a preview of the topics discussed in this chapter:

  • Infographics

  • Flexible Box Layout

  • Polyfills

  • Embedding SVG

  • Modernizr

  • The :target pseudo-selector

  • CSS3 transforms

  • Targeting SVG with CSS

  • Graceful degradation