The CSS Ninja - All things CSS, Javascript & xhtml

Custom radio and checkbox inputs using CSS

Feb 19

In my never ending quest to find weird and wonderful ways to abuse CSS and all its little intricacies, I have come up with a pretty good way of using CSS to create custom radio and checkbox inputs without JavaScript, that are accessible, keyboard controlled, don’t use any hacks and degrade nicely in non supporting browsers. The journey wasn’t easy and I was on the brink of filing it in the “to crazy” folder, never to be seen again. Luckily I had a brain wave that paid off and actually allowed this to be a very viable solution that degrades beautifully and works in 80% of the browsers. This is my story. Continue reading

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Web Notifications

Feb 6

Google Chrome has recently updated their stable release with some extra goodies; probably most notable is the inclusion of @font-face support which is very welcome. Another not so well know proposal by the Chromium team is to have web notifications which was shipped with the stable release (v4.0.249.78). Continue reading

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Even better image preloading with CSS2

Jan 5

Recently I read an article on better image preloading using CSS3 which presented a clever idea using CSS3 multiple background images to preload images on one element as opposed to another method of having containers for each image. As of writing the support for multiple backgrounds is fairly sparse with webkit having the best support (Safari 3+ & Chrome 1+), Firefox is introducing this in the upcoming 3.6 release.
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Futurebox, revisited

Dec 19

Earlier this year I unleashed futurebox into the wild. It got a whole lot more attention than I anticipated and I got some great feedback. Since then, I have been slowly working on a new version of futurebox which incorporates many new features. Continue reading

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The File API has changed

Dec 10

Recently I have been touting how awesome and revolutionary the File API is through a few demo’s. After some feedback on webapps mailing list there have been some major changes to the API and how it works. Continue reading

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Font Dragr: A drag and drop font tester

Oct 13

After playing with the new file API draft spec available in Firefox 3.6 with my drag and drop upload article. I had another idea when I was playing with custom fonts, @font-face, in the browser. What if you could drag an drop a font file (otf, ttf, svg, woff) from your desktop into the browser and have text rendered on the fly using any available valid font. Continue reading

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Make IE awesome by turning it into Google Chrome

Sep 23

As I’m sure you all know by now Google made an announcement about their Chrome Frame plugin for IE that turns the Trident rendering engine into the Chrome rendering engine giving IE access to the awesome power that is Chrome. No longer will IE miss out on those awesome new features in CSS3 & HTML5 the more competent browsers enjoy today such as the soon to be released Google Wave. Continue reading

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Drag and drop file uploading using JavaScript

Aug 26

With the recent announcement of the File API draft specification being published I’m sure a lot of people were confused as to what it could really do and why it is truly a powerful API. Firefox’s latest alpha release of their 3.6 browser, aka Namoroka, is the first to implement this new draft specification. Continue reading

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Create the accordion effect using CSS3

Aug 5

Recently I have been playing around with CSS transitions and animations as implemented in webkit based browsers such as Safari and Chrome. They have been submitted to the W3C for consideration in the CSS3 spec so hopefully we should see more browsers support this soon, Firefox 3.5 supports CSS transforms which was developed by the webkit people to work alongside CSS animations & transitions. Continue reading

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Real text rotation with CSS

Jul 29

Just saw a great post on Jonathan Snooks’ blog about doing text rotation with CSS and how to accomplish it in IE using IE propriety filter basic image property to rotate a text block. But there is a better way using CSS3 writing-mode property that has been in IE since version 5.5. Continue reading

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