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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

Support for older browsers


Internet Explorer version 9 or below doesn't support CSS3 transition, nor CSS3 3D transforms, so this project can hardy be emulated on those browsers. We can however implement basic picture navigation while hiding all the other options. To achieve this, let's take advantage one more time of the conditional comments and substitute <html> with the following lines:

<!--[if lte IE 9]> <html class="lteie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]> --> <html> <!-- <![endif]-->

Next we need to add support for Internet Explorer 8 to some CSS3 selectors we used during the project. To do so, we have to add a library called Selectivizr (http://selectivizr.com/) that uses JavaScript to support most of the new CSS3 selectors. Selectivizr depends on jQuery, so we need to add it too. Lastly, we need to use a polyfill to make Internet Explorer 8 support the new HTML5 elements. The following is the snippet of code required to insert these three libraries...