What CSS3 Can Do For You: Animation and 3D effects

As CSS3 gains more buzz, more and more developers are finding great ways to utilize it. In my last post, I went over the great ways to develop buttons and how to effectively use imagery transitions. Now we will move on and talk about the great ways to use CSS3 for animation and 3D effects…

Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale

The Twitter “Fail Whale” fully rendered using just CSS. If you’re using a Webkit browser Safari or Chrome, you’ll also see it’s animated. If you are viewing in IE8 or below, well, this isn’t an experiment for you…

Random Color CSS3 Animation

Ever since I wrote my first lines of code, I have had a strange interest in the functions that generate random numbers. and yes, I know actual random doesn’t exist Every time I just want to fool around with some code, you will find me popping in a random function in somewhere. So when I […]

CSS3 Transition-Delay

In another round of CSS3 experimentation, I wanted to see if it was possible to sequentially transition the opacity of 3 or more elements via CSS without having them all begin fading at once. While it seems painfully obvious now, I wasn’t aware that the transition-delay property existed. It’s currently compatible with webkit browsers like […]

CSS3 In Transition

With the addition of the CSS3 transition property comes a lot of uncharted territory. Never before has it been so easy to bring animation into a usable, standards-based browsing environment. Determining how often and to what degree one should use animation on a web build can be tricky. As we evaluate how to implement animations […]

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can […]

CSS Animations

What do we need to make a spinner with CSS animations? One image, and one element on our webpage we can hook on to. Yes, that’s it. I created a simple transparent PNG that looks it might be a spinner, and for the element on the page, I wrote this piece of genius HTML…

Radioactive Buttons with CSS Animations and RGBa

Using CSS animations in Safari, we’re able to turn an otherwise ordinary button into a glowing, radioactive mess of awesome. Don’t see the radioactive buttons? Be sure you’re in Safari before getting underway…

How To Implement Animations of CSS Properties With jQuery

In the past days I received several requests from my readers that asked me to dedicate the new issue of my jQuery Lesson Series to how to implement custom animations of CSS properties of HTML elements. So this post illustrates a basic way to use the jQuery animate() function that allows you to animate easy […]

3D Transforms Using Safari Webkit

WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since 2.0, and now we’re please […]

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