CSS3 is cool and all web developers would love to use it’s tasty features.  The announced support for CSS3 by such browsers as Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and even IE 9 heats up the interest for this protocol quite a bit, but there’s still an issue of IE 6, 7 and 8.  The fact that IE 9 is not intended to run on XP will probably keep the number of IE 6-8 users high for quite a while.  This is where our discussion of CSS3 could end.  And yet there are efforts to make IE6-8 CSS3 compliant.  Let’s take a look at some of them, many are rather odd.

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In a recent article we’ve discussed creating the box-shadow effect viewable in all browsers with the use of filters.  The method has a number of drawbacks of which the biggest is performance.  Here’s another method that’s aimed at efficiency and performance, though it can only be used on blocks with fixed width and height.

As usual, it’s quite simple for the compliant browsers:

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Creating a Cross-Browser Box-Shadow

Here’s a very simple way to implement the box-shadow in css. Perhaps the idea is too simple and obvious for the esteemed writers of the Internet to ever want to publish it.

First, the compliant browsers:

div {
background: green; /* required for IE */
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 15px #222;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 15px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 15px #222;
}

The idea really boils down to applying the shadow filter four times with different directions. This way the shadow wraps around the edges of the container.

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Despite all the criticism of Flash, Adobe Systems keeps developing products based on it. The company is not staying astray from the general fascination with 3D that is being observed all over the world. This fall they plan to present the new version of the browser Flash Plugin with full support of 3D graphics.

Lately the main task was making sure the technology can perform on smart-phones and other devices with limited computing capabilities so the newer versions of Flash are much less power-demanding. They even have some 3D functionality though it remains very limited.

The information about the upcoming 3rd dimension was published in the agenda of Adobe MAX – a conference for developers scheduled to take place at the end of October in LA. The innovation to be presented at the Flash Player 3D Future session for developers. The name suggests that Adobe sees it’s future in 3D.

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