Happy Saint Valentine’s Day! Red is the common color of the day, but which shade of red? That’s the point of this post. First, it’s to show that there’s progress on the “Photics Web Guide”. It’s a tough project, but this might be the best Photics book yet! But while working on the CSS chapter of the book, I thought it would be cool to be able to arrange the “Named Colors” by their colors. Well, now you can do that, as the data has been organized in a sortable table.
Tag: HTML
HTML Tags List
“A Book About Making Web Games” has changed to the “Photics Web Guide”. There were technical issues. But more importantly, I wanted to do something a little more serious. The world is filled with amazing video games — including web games — but the Internet overall has been feeling stale lately. That’s why the focus was shifted to a more generalized Web Development / Web Design book. And while working on the book, a testing ground for HTML tags was needed. So, I put it here. Enjoy! 🙂
Flipping A Card With HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
It is possible to create 3D graphics on the web. It should be even better as browsers improve. As an example, the “model” HTML tag has lots of potential. But what if you don’t want to wait, or what if you want something extremely lightweight? For flipping cards, simple CSS can create a sense of perspective. That’s what this tutorial is about.
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Styling “Details” & “Summary” HTML Tags
Back in Web #6, the ease of the details / summary tags was mentioned. All you had to do was drop support for Internet Explorer and then you could have a pure HTML / CSS solution to creating web boxes that could be opened or closed. It would be almost two years since such a feature was added to this website. But with the addition of the Farmside Guide, now there’s a great reason to use the Details & Summary HTML tags. There’s a video on Photics.TV that explains the CSS styling of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) webpage.
10 Reasons To Stop Supporting Internet Explorer
This article is available as a video on Photics.TV (YouTube). Part of determining the requirements for your web project is choosing which web browsers to support. So, while Internet Explorer is not quite dead yet, it’s really close. That’s the point of this article. If you’re having trouble deciding to include Internet Explorer in your next or current web project, here are 10 native web features that you can probably use if you drop support for Internet Explorer.
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