CSS Articles
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Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6
This article was written by John Daggett. John is a Mozilla contributor and has been working hard with font creators and web developers to improve the state of fonts on the web. This article is a high-level overview of whats different and shows some examples of WOFF in use. A full list of other supporting […]
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beautiful fonts with @font-face
This article is also available in Bulgarian. While Firefox 3.0 improved typographic rendering by introducing support for kerning, ligatures, and multiple weights along with support for rendering complex scripts, authors are still limited to using commonly available fonts in their designs. Firefox 3.5 removes this restriction by introducing support for the CSS @font-face rule, a […]
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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron’s post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been a vector for querying a user’s history. It’s not particularly dangerous by itself, but when it’s combined with <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.getComputedStyle">getComputedStyle()</a> in JavaScript it means that […]
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color correction for images in Firefox 3.5
Back in Firefox 3, we introduced support for color profiles in tagged images, but it was disabled by default. In Firefox 3.5 we were able to make the color correction process about 5x faster than it was in Firefox 3 so we’ve enabled support for color correction for tagged images. Most images on the web […]
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Firefox 5 is here
Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create […]
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Firefox 4: CSS3 calc()
This article describes the CSS3 calc() value. This feature hasn’t landed yet in any Firefox tree but work to implement it is underway. Firefox will support the CSS calc() value, which lets you compute a length value using an arithmetic expression. This means you can use it to define the sizes of divs, the values […]
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The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model
This article about the Flexible Box Layout was written by Jérémie Patonnier, French open Web enthusiast. The flexible box model CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines the way boxes are distributed inside other boxes and the […]
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Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a lot of the tools and options available to you as […]
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is here – Welcome CSS3 transitions
As we have explained before, Mozilla is now making more frequent updates to our beta program. So here it is, Firefox Beta 2 has just been released, 3 weeks after Beta 1. Firefox 4 Beta 1 already brought a large amount of new features (see the Beta 1 feature list). So what’s new for web […]
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css gradients in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 includes many CSS improvements. In this post we’re going to show you how to use CSS gradients. If you are running the latest beta of Firefox 3.6, you should check out our interactive demo and take a look at the corresponding code. Use the radio buttons to switch different style options on or […]