Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
An informative but uninspiring guide to CSS3. It shows how to progressively enhance using several CSS3 techniques, but the examples are uncompelling. Also, I found the writing dry; I've been spoiled by the character and humor present in some other web design books like Introducing HTML5 and Designing with Web Standards. As a technical book, it's a decent guide, with many references to further reading. It contains workarounds for non-supporting browsers, especially IE8 and older. I liked chapter 4 on attribute selectors and chapter 6 on responsive layouts with media queries.
@font-face
embedding and font-embedding services.::first-line
, ::first-letter
, ::before
, ::after
.:not
pseudo-class targets elements that don't match criteria.target:
pseudo-class to select an element that's the target of a referring URL containing a fragment identifier.<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
to tell mobile browsers to make the viewport size equal the device width (or screen size).counter-reset
, counter-increments
, and content: counter(counter_name)
.