my mind is totally blown away by c3 technologies, a recent apple acquisition, that focuses on 3d mapping. can’t wait for apple to build something to replace google maps for its iphone/ipad users, hopefully with better navigation functionality.

(full scoop on 9to5mac.com)

here is doug crockford, giving a talk at google.

if you want to style disabled inputs, you have a few options. you can manipulate the text color and background color in every browser except for IE, using a combination of pseudo classes and attribute matching:

input[disabled="disabled"], input:disabled {
    color:#3333ff;
    -webkit-text-fill-color:#3333ff;
    background:#cccccc;
}

however, IE [...]

i stumbled upon a graphics time capsule — a video of the 1993 winner of a big graphics conference in finland, from a company called future crew:

while i could comment on the huge advances in graphics technology in the past 18 years, i think it’s better to quietly laugh, and admire something more [...]

i just wanted to mention that this developer is making & collecting some amazing things with css3 background gradients:

http://leaverou.me/css3patterns/

that is all.

i thought it’d be a good challenge to recreate the shiny, lickable apple.com navigation using only css3.  i think it worked pretty well:

theirs:

mine:

and again, as an iframe (try rolling over)

the css code:

.apple {
    line-height:28px;
    font-size: 20px;
  [...]

i’m taking a course on HTML5 and CSS3 this fall at college of san mateo. while i have been dabbling and reading a lot about html5 since mainstream browsers started supporting it, i’m excited to have a class where i can have everything laid out in a structured format. i’m also willing to bet [...]

i’ve heard that wordcamp is a great conference, but i still have never been. while i would have liked to finally go this year, i had a close family friend’s wedding to go to that weekend instead. luckily my co-worker adria was able to go, and she brought back some goodies:

http://jsbin.com/super-css-super-challenge/

i thought it would be a fun css project to create the texas state flag entirely from code (meaning, without any images). you would think that a css star would be near impossible, but discovering that it could be done is actually what started this. someone sent me nicolas gallagher’s star pattern, which [...]