Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed
Some nice (and most importantly useful!) trickery with CSS and jQuery.
Skip Flash, Build Animations in HTML5 With Hype
This looks cool, a nice easy to use and understand tool for creating flash-style animations, but which are all standards based HTML5 code and will work on any browser (if not now, then soon). Why does anyone use Flash again?
The @Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks
We’ve been using these techniques for around 18 months, along with several client websites we’ve also used it on our own House of Type website.
Nice to see a fairly easy to follow guide on how to use more fonts on the web.
Native CSS Variables: Welcomed Addition or Huge Mistake?
A nice little tutorial on CSS variables. However, it’s trying to ask the question as to whether this should be a welcome addition to CSS, I personally feel it is.
HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover
HTML5 keeps making things easier.
HTML5 and CSS3 Without Guilt
Not every HTML5 or CSS3 feature has widespread browser support, naturally. To compensate for this, enterprising developers have created a number of tools to let you use these technologies today, without leaving behind users who still live in the stone age.
Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today
Another post promoting HTML5 and CSS3 to everyone, and telling us why we should all be using it.
Sometimes it feels that we are hiding behind the lack of cross-browser compatibility to avoid learning new techniques that would actually dramatically improve our workflow. And that’s just wrong. Without an adjustment, we will continue to undersell the Web we have, and the landscape will remain unexcitingly stale and bound by this underestimation and mindset.
I couldn’t agree more.
Build Awesome Practical CSS3 Buttons
Another useful tutorial on how to build some nice looking CSS3 buttons.
50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools
Some great CSS tutorials, techniques and tools.
How to Create a Web-Based Drawing Application Using Canvas
A premium tutorial (meaning you have to pay to gain access to it) from nettuts. A great website, and definitely worth signing up for.
The tutorial takes you through creating a drawing application using Javascript (AJAX) and HTML. It uses the new HTML5 canvas element, so should be pretty future proof.