http://www.evotech.net/blog Estelle Weyl's Blog of quirks, random thoughts and funky finds discovered in day-to-day coding Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:30:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Win a free ticket to the online CSSSummit. Follow @estellevw on Twitter, and Tweet, facebook or blog that you want to go. Something like "“I wanna go to attend the online http://csssummit.com. Follow @estellevw and retweet to win: http://awe.sm/58Uxr" will work fine. Can wait to sign up? Register at http://csssummit.com. I ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/07/win-a-free-ticket-to-css-summit-the-online-css-conference/ I am very excited to be presenting at the 2nd Annual CSS Summit with some of the best speakers working with CSS today and a list of topics on the cutting edge: Zoe Gillenwater, author of Stunning CSS, presents "CSS3 Techniques" David McFarland, author of CSS: The Missing Manual, presents "CSS3 ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/07/2nd-annual-css-summit/ Since I last wrote in this blog (the day Safari 5 was released), two more browser versions have been released. Opera 10.6 was released last week, with fabulous support for webforms, though still no support for the placeholder attribute. Yesterday, Firefox 4 Beta was also released, in beta (duh!). They ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/07/new-browser-releases-opera-106-and-firefox-4beta/ Safari 5 came out today. I am still testing. Safari 5 does not support all CSS selectors. While webkit (the engine behind Safari) has been supporting all CSS selectors, including all proposed CSS3 selectors for a long time now, today's release does not support a:link and a:visited. There is ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/06/safari-5-link-selector-bug/ To target only webkit, which includes Google and Safari, encompass all the CSS that you want to use just to target Webkit in the following @media block: @media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) { .myClass { background-color: #FF0000; } #myId {color: #0000FF;} ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/04/hack-for-webkit-filter-for-chrome-and-safari/ I just wanted to point out 2 articles I wrote elsewhere that may be of interest to you. JavaScript Variable Scope: Local and Global Variables In writing JavaScript functions, variable functions can trip you up. A common error is overwriting a global variable because the variable in a function ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/04/js-variable-scope-html5-web-forms/ If you are going to be in Austin for SXSW this weekend, make sure to come to our panel discussion: View Source Has a Posse. The "view source" functionality of browsers is near and dear to my heart, as it's how I learned to code, it's how I judge who to ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/03/view-source-has-a-posse-sxsw/ At this blog you'll find my summary article on all the CSS3 properties, values and browser support. CSS3 has many different components, and I am digging into each category. I just posted CSS3 Border Properties & Browser Support tonight, and CSS Background Properties: possible values, default values, browser support and ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/03/css3-border-properties-etc/ CSS Properties Index Below is every most CSS3 Properties, all the possible values for that property, and the support for each property value from grade-A browsers This grid does not include animation, tranforms, grids, columns, layouts or templates. I have a separate post for CSS3 Background Properties ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/02/css3-properties-values-browser-support/ I am busy working away at a grid of all the CSS3 properties. But, as I test them, I figure I would share. Here is the first set: the column properties. I have a grid of all of the CSS3 properties, values and browser support that you may want to ... http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/02/css3-columns-browser-support/