Scaling With em Units

Recently I started testing how proportional scaling of bigger layouts would work in reality and if it makes any sense. It’s possible when using EM units and then changing body’s font-size when viewport’s height grows above certain point. Basically that means, that I have to change only one or two css properties between @media queries …

CSS calc() in Webkit

As mentioned before, CSS calc() was about to come to Chromium/Chrome (Webkit). Since about a week ago, the first part of the implementation has landed into the Canary builds: Adds calc expressions to CSSPrimitiveValue. This enables simple (ie no mixing of percents with numbers/lengths) expressions to be evaluated on most properties. No mixing yet, but …

CSS calc() in Chromium/Chrome

Three days ago this was committed: This is the parsing stage of calc. The expressions are evaluated and expression trees are generated. CSS values are not created yet – that will happen in a subsequent commit. Looking forward to the next commits, as this feature will make things — such as flexible columns with a …

Getting Started with Sass

Great new article on A List Apart introducing on to Sass. While browsers aren’t ready for a new CSS, Catlin and Weizenbaum (the authors of SASS, ed.) realized they could go ahead and design a new style sheet syntax with features to help make their increasingly complex CSS easier to write and manage, then use …

Natural Object-Rotation with CSS3 3D

In this tutorial we will learn how to build a 3D packshot in HTML and CSS by applying some CSS 3D-transforms. Then we will add some Javascript to make the object freely rotatable in 3d space. And as we will enhance our Javascript with some touch-interactivity, the packshot will also work nicely in Safari for …