Archive for the Web Platform Features Category

In case you hadn’t heard, the SFHTML5 Meetup group will be hosting a meetup on April 25th 2013 focused on making the Web better via crowd sourcing testing. Rebecca Hauck will talk to us about Test the Web Forward a community-based grass roots movement with the goal of improving the quality of the Web by fostering... Continue reading →

With modern web layout you can have your content laid out in whatever shape you want as long as it’s a rectangle. Designers in other media have long been able to have text and other content lay out inside and around arbitrarily complex shapes. The CSS Exclusions and Shapes specification aims to bring this capability... Continue reading →

Come Join Us! Test the Web Forward is throwing an event in Seattle on April 12–13. The focus of this event is on learning, hacking, and writing tests for W3C specifications. During the event, experts will teach you about W3C specs & W3C testing and will guide you as you help make the Web a... Continue reading →

Welcome to the Real World™ A while ago, I wrote a blog post on how we used Browserscope to create a feature support matrix for tracking the level of support for CSS Regions in different browsers. The initial plan was to have both the feature detection tests and the submission mechanism available to the public... Continue reading →

I had the honor to speak at the W3Conf 2013 last week. My talk was about a fork of CSS FilterLab that I’ve been working on recently. The project is written entirely in JavaScript, CSS and HTML and targets mobile devices with touch based interfaces. In order to work with all the touch API, I... Continue reading →

Here at Adobe we’ve started collecting links being shot around in the office and compiled a list of some of the interesting ones. There’s a lot of exciting news happening around the open web platform recently so be sure to check out these weekly link digests: ShaderToy.com – Develop and share web shaders all in... Continue reading →

What is fragmentation? The CSS 2.1 specification defines a box model to represent the layout of a document and pretty much everything is a box. Normal flow nodes (e.g. not absolutely positioned) are laid out child by child starting at the top of their parent element box. If an element’s box is too small to fit all the content,... Continue reading →

Last week a new Pattern Rodeo contest was posted on the CodePen blog. Chris Coyier from CSS Tricks challenged folks to use CSS Regions in their designs. These pens could work with the experimental regions implementations in Chrome Canary or IE10, or use the Regions polyfill in other browsers. Twenty-three people entered the contest. The... Continue reading →

Hans Muller has been working hard on the implementation of the shape-inside feature in CSS Exclusions and Shapes, most recently focusing on adding shape-padding functionality for rounded rectangle shapes (ellipses, circles, rectangles). Shape-padding provides a user the ability to specify how much space exists between their content and the shape-inside. For more detail on how shape-padding... Continue reading →

This past week, I had the opportunity to speak at Developer Week in San Francisco. The talk I gave used some of the work we are currently doing on CSS Regions and Exclusions as an example of how web standards are built, from initial idea, to feature specification, to browser implementation. There is a recording... Continue reading →