It's pretty neat that they used the border-radius to make the actual div perfectly round. I love it when a feature is used for something completely different than what was intended (make rounded-corners).
Also, no one cares if something uses css rather than js. The endless "X done only using Y" is cool from a hacker perspective, pushing boundaries is where the awesome hacks come. But users will just go 'meh'.
Precisely. Where do we have CSS without JavaScript? And for people who disable JavaScript in their browsers, they get the broken websites they deserve.
One issue with this that I'd like to point out is that the background is apparently still a .png, so this isn't something you can implement on an HTML <div> out of the box (unless I'm misreading the source).
The term “jeweler’s loupe” is what I’d use myself for this demo...
Apple’s use of the term “retina” only serves to remind me of Wired magazine’s original attempt at a website way back when. (They called their Life magazine-like section “retina.”) It’s a common, almost everyday word that nevertheless sounds pretentious or sci-fi—ish.
Indeed. Forward compatability for IE is groovy and all, but how does a fella go about predicting document.getElementById back in the days of document.all and document.layers?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 64.3 ms ] threadThis is the power of CSS3: doing the same things we've always done.
> This is the power of CSS3: doing the same things we've always done.
True, but CSS3 enables us to do the same things without javascript.
Except that it is made with JQuery, so it _is_ using JS.
Is this to prevent someone from scraping their tutorials?
The constant use of this "retina" term is dubious when referring to the actual iPhone screen, never mind this.
p.s. Nice job.
Apple’s use of the term “retina” only serves to remind me of Wired magazine’s original attempt at a website way back when. (They called their Life magazine-like section “retina.”) It’s a common, almost everyday word that nevertheless sounds pretentious or sci-fi—ish.
Fire up a copy of IE (or Netscape 4) and check it out:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010314213015/www.jasonkester.co...