Monthly Archives: September, 2012

Adobe, in partnership with multiple organizations and individuals, is organizing two Test The Web Forward hackathons in Beijing (October 20-21) and Paris (October 26-27). The goal of these events is to bring the web community together to create test cases in order to improve the quality of the web – Like the slogan says “Better... Continue reading →

Now that developers and designers can start using CSS regions in WebKit, we decided it was time to give them some developer tools. The web inspector in the latest version of Chrome Canary now has support for: Finding all the named flows in a document. Displaying the content and the region chain for each named... Continue reading →

By now you must have caught all the excitement of announcements we made at Create the Web (watch the keynote). For us, these are exciting times! Not only do we have a spiffy new blog design to go with the event, but we also have a bunch of new, cool technologies to show you! CSS... Continue reading →

Chrome Canary now has a flag to enable CSS custom filters. In Canary, enter “about:flags” in the address bar, find “Enable CSS Shaders”, click “Enable”, and relaunch Canary. Then, check out our samples to explore the power of custom filters! For an explanation of Chrome flags, check out Christian Cantrell’s video. Continue reading →

In the previous article I talked about types and type coercion in JavaScript. In this one I want to talk more about how this coercion applies to JavaScript operators. Lets go over six major operators and look at how they work: typeof The typeof operator returns a string representation of the type of the passed... Continue reading →

The HTML image tag has been around about as long as HTML itself. In nearly 20 years the tag has changed very little, in spite of the essential role that images play in most Web content. During that same period of time, the capabilities of the devices people use to view Web content have changed... Continue reading →

This week the flags for a number of experimental features were rolled up under a single Chrome flag. The change has already made its way to Chrome Canary builds. To enable CSS Regions in Canary, you now need to turn on the “Enable experimental WebKit features” in chrome://flags. If you’re unfamiliar with Chrome flags, check... Continue reading →

This article is loosely based on @razvancaliman’s awesome post. The idea While we were working on the CSS Regions feature, one of the things people asked, from quite early on, was a way of telling what CSS Regions features were supported in what version of the different browsers out there. In the beginning, “Get the... Continue reading →

CSS Regions allows you to flow content from one box to another in a region chain. One perennial point of discussion on that specification is just where those boxes come from. Our position is strongly inclusive – we think that you should be able to create a region chain out of any box. This could... Continue reading →