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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

Avoiding experimental prefixes


We need to find a way to avoid writing a lot of duplicated CSS code only to implement all the existing browser experimental prefixes. A good solution is provided by Prefix Free (http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/), a small JavaScript library created by Lea Verou that detects the user's browser and dynamically adds the required prefixes. To install it, we just need to download the .js file in a js folder within our project, name it prefixfree.js, and add the corresponding script tag to index.html just after the css request:

<script src="js/prefixfree.js"></script>

From this point on, we don't have to worry about prefixes anymore because this library will do the heavy lifting for us. There are, however, some minor drawbacks; some properties are not automatically detected and prefixed (for example, radial-gradient and repeating-radial-gradient are not prefixed with -moz-) and we have to suffer a brief delay, roughly equal to the script download time...