Css News & Articles

Cascading style sheets (CSS) has been in use now for over a decade for controlling web page appearance. However, the “standard” has long been a mess of implementations, specifications and varying levels of browser support that can, quite frankly, drive web designers mad, or at least to annoyance. The latest release of the CSS standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site), CSS 2.1, should make styling sites a little less painful.

Adobe (news, site) aims to bring some glossy magazine style to the Web with a prototype CSS extension that can add new features to your web pages.

The Internet is such a ubiquitous part of daily existence that its omission from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs must have been accidental. The last three decades of the World Wide Web have fueled technical innovation at a rate that could only be described by its own measurement metaphor -- Internet speed. The pace, however, has also resulted in a chaotic set of standards and practices for using the web. What’s a techie to do? Not to worry -- the standards organization W3C (news, site) is already on the job.

Earlier we told you about how Monotype Imaging released more than 7,500 fonts, including over 2,200 available for free through Web Fonts with the goal of providing more choices and supporting more languages for web designers, brand managers and publishers. Yet, while web design may benefit from increased availability of fonts, what about those who design for mobile interfaces? How can you ensure the integrity of every serif and san serif?

eZ Systems’ (news, site) 2010 New Year's resolutions are all customer-serving: look-and-feel editing, XML export and collaboration in eZ Publish 4.2 open source web content management system.

Mobile seems to be where the future is and the W3C (news, site) is guiding us there with its latest set of guidelines and best practices.

The W3C Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has released the latest version of the Candidate Recommendation CSS Specification -- CSS 2.1. The newest version corrects some errors in the previous version and adds some features that have been highly requested.

At the end of March, Platformic (news, site) introduced a new Embedded Content Tool (ECT) to its web building platform that facilitated the easy use of assets in an enterprise’s media library. As part of its continuing development of a Web Content Management System for use by even novices, it was a timely release.

What they didn’t say at the time was that only six weeks later they would be releasing an entirely new version of their platform that would remove the need for Adobe Dreamweaver, or other third party web-authoring tools.

That version – v3.0 – was unveiled this morning.

We probably don’t need to tell you that the demand for community-driven and online solutions is growing exponentially in just about every aspect of, well, everything. No Web site? No social engagement? You can pretty much kiss it goodbye.

Take, for example, YouTube and online streaming. With the explosion of the option to pretty much interact with television, the real television (even with the benefits of OnDemand and TiVo) is struggling to keep its little antennae above water. But Magnolia On Air, the new Broadcast Content Management system from Magnolia, may be just what it needs to stay afloat.

Web publishers have a new and exciting tool at their disposal. Vyoo, an online video and publishing and management application, allows users to create, manage and monetize high-quality online video.

The W3C Web Applications Working Group is currently developing standard APIs for client-side Web Application development and is soliciting comments.

In June 2008, the WebAPI Working Group and Web Applications Working Group merged to form the new Web Applications (“WebApps”) Working Group. Chartered to maximize team and member resources, the working group works to develop the active deliverables from both groups, as well as add selected new deliverables relevant to market needs.

Whether it’s the Web API Working Group publishing a Working Draft of “Progress Events 1.0 or the CSS Working Group defining the syntax for using namespaces in CSS, have no doubt that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been hard at work trying to keep our dear web world in line.

About a month ago in an attempt to finalize the standards for the features of CSS 3 — the third version of Cascading Style Sheets — Jason Cranford Teague, a member of the W3C CSS Working Group and perhaps most notably the Director of Web Design for AOL Global Programming, posted an article on his blog covering the specifications for CSS Fonts and CSS Web Fonts and in the same quill stroke called for input from the design community.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of “CSS Namespaces Module.” This module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS and may have wide spread implications in the design world.

The CSS Working Group just released an updated draft of “Multi-Column Layout,” a version of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 - otherwise known as CSS3.

Positive feedback is always a good thing. And thanks to feedback received and extensive implementation work, W3C has announced that they have published eight new standards in their XML Family. The new standards will play a large role in connecting databases with the Web and they “will support the ability to query, transform, and access XML data and documents.”

The three main standards are XML Query, XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 1.0. What are they all about? In a nutshell, XQuery lets you mine data from memos to messages, and everything in between, and XSLT 2.0 brings increased functionality to the already deployed XSLT 1.0, which lets you transform and apply visual style to XML data documents.