Articles for June 25th, 2009
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the text-shadow spotlight
Zachary Johnson has put together another fun demo. He’s using some JavaScript and the new <a href="http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/text-shadow/">text-shadow</a> property to build a spotlight effect. It’s embedded below. If you can’t view it, click through to his post. View the Demo in Firefox 3.5
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saving data with localStorage
This post was written by Jeff Balogh. Jeff works on Mozilla’s web development team. New in Firefox 3.5, localStorage is a part of the Web Storage specification. localStorage provides a simple Javascript API for persisting key-value pairs in the browser. It shouldn’t be confused with the SQL database storage proposal, which is a separate (and […]
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using SVG and APNG to create an animated texture map
Yesterday we featured a demo that used SVG to map 3D data. Today we link to Hans’ next demo: dynamically textured animations in the browser. He uses the same techniques that he used in the previous post, but this time he’s taking an Animated PNG image and mapping a random image texture on top of […]
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new CSS3 properties in Firefox 3.5 – nth-*
Firefox 3.5 supports several new CSS3 selectors. In this post we’ll talk about four of them: :nth-child, :nth-last-child, :nth-of-type and :nth-last-of-type. Each of these is called a Pseudo-class and can be used to apply styles to existing selectors. The best way to describe how this works is with some examples. :nth-child This pseudo-class lets you […]
