After detailed discussion with members of the CSSWG, a decision has been made to incorporate the CSS Shaders specification into the CSS Filter Effects specification. As a result, the feature known as Shaders will now be referred to as Custom Filters. For more information, check out the CSS Custom Filters page.  Samples are also available... Continue reading →

I like JavaScript. It is a language that is both powerful and flexible, but only if you know how to use it. Once you have mastered the JavaScript language you can build almost anything, and you can do so quickly and interactively. If you think JavaScript is simple or primitive, then you have fallen into... Continue reading →

The W3C CSS Working Group met in San Diego on August 13-15. Vincent Hardy, Steve Zilles and myself were representing Adobe. Quite a lot was accomplished in three short days. The full meeting notes will be available soon from the CSS WG Blog. There is always a flurry of activity in the working group in... Continue reading →

A couple of posts back, Hans Muller began outlining an algorithm for determining where to start layout within complex shapes. His initial algorithm only determined what positions were candidates for beginning layout. Recently, he has completed the algorithm to select the correct position. Check out his blog for the details and an awesome demo. Continue reading →

We at Adobe WebKit team in Romania would like to bring WebKit contributors together to spend a few days collaboratively hacking on WebKit at our offices. The hackathon will be on September 20 to 22nd in Bucharest Romania featuring 3 days of bug fixing, test writing and new feature/utilities prototyping. Lunch will be provided and... Continue reading →

Taking a short break from its usual work, the Web Platform Team at Adobe took an afternoon to explore new APIs and authoring tools. As a byproduct, we created a little 2D game called “Dynasteroids”. The objective of the game is to move a dinosaur left or right in order to dodge falling asteroids. The... Continue reading →

Christian Cantrell has written a tutorial on HTML5 Rocks about how to bring the power of desktop publishing to the Web using CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions.  Christian goes into some detail on how to use the CSS Object Model for Regions in the latest version of Chrome. He also looks into the upcoming CSS Exclusions... Continue reading →