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What is cross-browser layout?

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What is cross-browser layout?

The cross-browser display is an important aspect of the work of a professional web layout designer. Making a layout displays correctly in all browsers is no easy task, let alone a website that displays correctly in a browser means that your display is correct in other browsers. Not at all.

Although validate the HTML and CSS using the W3C validation service and we know by heart the HTML and CSS standards will always be small differences between browsers display because they do not support the web standards identically. This is a situation that occurs repeatedly because browsers are developed by teams of people firms and different working rhythms and different objectives, they do what they can to accommodate improvements to each new version of web standards.

What browsers should look good a layout?

There usability studies indicating how long it should be considered a current web browser like, but the best way to know what browsers we worry about supporting a consulting web layout is usage statistics.

 

The chart speaks for itself: the most used browsers today are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer 6 is considered deprecated, so it should support from version 7 this browser.

How to achieve a cross-browser layout?

The starting point for achieving a crossbrowser layout is to write HTML and CSS valid, but not enough. Achieve cross-browser layout necessarily going to write CSS code conditional, ie incorporated CSS code dynamically according to the client browser.

There are several techniques that can be used to achieve this goal:

  • Load specific style sheets for different versions of Internet Explorer using conditional HTML comments.
  • Load specific style sheets to include specific rules for Google Chrome and Safari based on browser detection using Javascript.
  • Use hacks to overcome deficiencies in some browsers.
  • Use a script to provide us the task of writing CSS rules depending on the browser.

CSS3 brings great news for web design.

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CSS3 brings great news for web design.

Since CSS began many years have passed and we are already CSS3 specification, which incorporates a number of innovations that we will try to summarize in this article.

What is CSS?

If you do not know what CSS interested you probably start by reading our manual CSS or CSS section thoroughly. However, one might say that CSS is a language for defining the style or appearance of web pages written in HTML or XML documents. CSS was created to separate the content of the form, while allowing designers to maintain a much more precise control over the appearance of the pages.

More control With CSS3

The initial goal of CSS, separating content from form, shall be fulfilled as the first language specifications. However, the objective of offering total control to designers on the elements of the site has been more difficult to cover. The above specifications have many uses language to style websites, but developers still continue to use tricks to get various effects as common or as desired as rounded or shading elements on the page.

CSS1 represented a considerable advance when designing websites, providing much greater control over page elements. But there were still many other things that the designers wanted to do, but did not allow specify CSS, they should make use of tricks to design. The worst of these tricks is that often involves altering the content of the page to add new HTML tags that allow styling of a more elaborate way. Given the need to change the content, to alter the design and do things that CSS is not allowed, it was ruining any of the purposes for which CSS was created, which was completely separate content from form.

CSS2 incorporated some interesting developments, which today already use regularly, but CSS 3 still goes a little more in the direction of providing more control over page elements.
So, the most important development that provides CSS 3, facing web developers, is the incorporation of new mechanisms to maintain greater control over the style that shows the elements of the pages, without having to resort to tricks or hacks, often complicating the code of the web.

New properties in CSS3

Here is a list of key properties that are new in CSS3:

Edges

  • border-color
  • border-image
  • border-radius
  • box-shadow
 Funds

  • background-origin
  • background-clip
  • background-size
  • layering with multiple background images
Color

  • HSL colors
  • HSLA colors
  • RGBA colors
  • Opacity
  Text

  • text-shadow
  • text-overflow
  • Break long words
  • Web Fonts
Interface

  • box-sizing
  • resize
  • outline
  • nav-top, nav-right, nav-bottom, nav-left
 Selectors

  • attribute selectors
Basic box model
• overflow-x, overflow-y		 CSS3 Gradients

  • Linear Gradients
  • Radial Gradients
  • linear gradients repeat
  • repeating radial gradients
Others

  • media queries
  • Creating multiple columns of text
  • speech oriented properties or automatic reading of web pages
  • CSS3 animations

 

Part of this list of new CSS3 properties I have taken from: http://www.css3.info/preview/. It is an English site, but may be well to visit to get to know more about CSS 3. However, in that place were missing some things like gradients or animations, at least when we visited, so we have completed for the realization of this index.
Future articles will offer some tips and explanations on several of these properties, at least the most interesting as well as examples that serve to get to know this new CSS specification. All this as we will be placing in the Manual CSS 3.

What is HTML5?

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What is HTML5?

HTML5, together with CSS3 defines new standards for web development for both desktop computers and mobile devices and cell phones. Doors open for new design options and dynamic information.

Much is talking lately about this new version of the popular HTML. For those who still do not know and always feared ask: HTML is the programming language and basic mother of all websites. This is a set of tags that are used to format different types of content, especially text.

The only formats and displays HTML content, and has the ability to interface with variables, database, etc. Even more complex websites, system using large databases and perform complex tasks, send to browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc.) Pure HTML.

HTML5 is a new version of this universal language and, while still under development, we can enjoy it in most browsers. Google Chrome is a pioneer in HTML5 support and is currently the browser that provides further support to this version of HTML.

What we offer HTML?

While it represents a lot of improvements over its previous version, these are the most important:

  • Simplification: The new code offers new ways simpler to specify some parameters and pieces of code.
  • Multimedia content: audio and video playback without plug-ins
  • Animations: Ability to display content similar to Adobe Flash, but apart from this component. HTML5 will have native support for a technology similar to Flash.
  • Data storage on the client side: A fundamental difference between desktop and web applications was the need of the latter, to process information and consultations provided databases on a server, making applications are slower and always required a constant Internet connection. HTML5 to store and process information on the client, making a Web application to an application much more like a desktop.
  • Effects and new version of CSS: The new version of HTML accompany a new version of CSS, CSS3. These are new formatting capabilities, such as the implementation of shadows, rounded edges, etc.

Many of the things that, until now, could only be achieved by inserting them as images, may be performed in code. This not only results in an improvement in the speed and performance of a site, but also in new and limitless design options.

  • Geo-location: Websites may know the physical location of the person who visits.
  • Nonstandard Fonts: Until now, perhaps the biggest limitation that designers faced was the inability to use non-standard fonts in our websites. Virtually all were limited to those that were imposed by the major browsers, such as Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, Tahoma, etc. The implementation of systems like Google Fonts today allows us to use many more!

In short: HTML5 will offer a number of improvements that will allow the development of web sites faster, more functional, and new designs.

What is a “responsive design”?

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What is a “responsive design”?

A Responsive Design interacts with the guests/visitors depending on size of their monitors (computer, smart phone or tablets), screen resolution, etc, returning the looks and feel depending on how the guests is reaching your online business. This is all possible thanks to HTML5 and CSS3.

Computers aren’t the only piece of hardware with a web browser anymore. The different windows resolutions and sizes mean that people expect to browse the web on their smart phones and tablets as easily as on a desktop computer of laptop, so to take care of this, web designers created mobile versions of the websites. Every website would have their normal ‘desktop’ version of their site, and as a bonus, a ‘mobile’ version.

It’s not just small screens, either. Large, high-resolution displays are starting to become much more common than they used to be, and it would be a waste for web designers to not take advantage of this.

In conclusion, screen sizes and resolutions are getting better and better every day, and us, web designers, create different versions of our work (mostly when we are asked to) targets individual devices, going after all kinds of searchers and web surfers.

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What is Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)?

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What is Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content

This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design).

CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. It can also be used to allow the web page to display differently depending on the screen size or device on which it is being viewed. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS style sheet, readers can use a different style sheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified.

CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules

In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.

The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998), and they also operate a free CSS validation service.

You can read more of this at Wikipedia.org