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CSS Gradients!

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Tonight I discovered a very cool tool that was right under my nose: Colorzilla’s CSS Gradient Generator. I use Firefox as my main browser, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve used colorzilla’s plug-in to grab colors from web pages. You wonder what that color is? click on the colorzilla tool and click the color, and you’ve got it. Well, in the colorzilla menu is something that may be new, or for all I know it may have been there for a long time. Check it out:

Choosing that option takes you to a slick tool that lets you create a gradient on the fly, then paste in your stylesheet. Amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

You can even plan for the old browsers by choosing either a color or the gradient image you’re replacing. The subsequent background commands will style newer browsers. Outstanding.

I’ve done exactly that in the menu bar gradient above.

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Awkward time for Cutting Edge

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Soo… you are thinking of doing something cool and cutting edge on a website, but if you’re like me, you’re not thinking of Flash, am I right?

But what are you thinking of using? Jquery, for one.  But that only gets you so far.  You can do some cool stuff, but it’s not flash.  So you look into HTML5, and wonder how much you can do with that.  You can do some stuff, alright, but what you cannot do is control which browser your target audience uses.  HTML5 is a minefield of partially supported stuff.   For the most part, IE is not even in the game.  IE9 is doing the roadshow with the big release, but guess what?  It will not run on XP.

So do you decide to advise your client to disregard the iOS crowd (ipads, iphones, x100 million devices) and go ahead with flash? Seems like a bad idea. I contacted a flash developer acquaintance, Jack Doyle over at Greensock, and he was confident in his assurance that Flash isn’t going anywhere. That may be true for flash / flex applications, but I’m afraid we’ve seen the beginning of the end for flash websites. It’s just an awkward time for implementing much more than jquery, ajax and javascript-based affects.

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