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The Expressive Web – CSS3 and HTML5 features showcased by Adobe

78 points by smilepet_26 12y ago

paublyrne 12y ago
It is cute that I am rewarded with achievement messages and awards for simply looking at the different styles. That was certainly all the rage in 2011. I used to get quite excited getting to a new coffee shop level on Foursquare. Sadly, the novelty wore thin.
- Kiro 12y ago
  What do you mean? Gamification is still all the rage.
  - netghost 12y ago
    Achievement unlocked!
- danboarder 12y ago
  well, this site was published in 2011. I think it is still fun though.
tbassetto 12y ago
You should add [2011] to he title (published on 1st of August 2011).
- bshimmin 12y ago
  I thought I remembered this from a while ago. I guess it's a permanent beta!
- smilepet_26 12y ago
  Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot it anyway.
passive 12y ago
I thought the burger building was a really nifty expression of media queries.
jdelatorre312 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but the links don't seem to be working?
- kenrick95 12y ago
  http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/ http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/ " It's just you. http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com is up. "
deepuj 12y ago
I remembered seeing this a long time ago - and just verified that it's vintage 2011.
shdon 12y ago
It's not exactly been kept up to date, most obviously by not taking into account IE10 and later. Support for things like box-shadows and gradients is pretty much at least 90% now, close to 100% in the western world.
benbristow 12y ago
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aikah 12y ago
Nothing new year, it has been here for years.(2011) they made it a bit after the job/flash backlash to show that Adobe cared about Open Techs. Well Adobe always cared about Open Tech, it was the main driving force pushing Ecmascript 4, ironically , Microsoft didn't want it,even though they had Jscript.net which was exactly ES4, and are now trying to push Typescript as an alternative to JS. We lost 8 years because Microsoft cared more about Silverlight than making Javascript better...
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  Yeah sure, it's all Microsoft's fault in a decade where the majority of web users are using non-Windows mobile phones. Gosh darn Microsoft for building a high quality cross platform application kit!
  - drivingmenuts 12y ago
    And by cross-platform, you mean? That it works well on Microsoft and kinda-sorta on everything else?
    - smilepet_26 12y ago
      yes, it works accross most browsers and in most operating systems. Mordernizer is tweaked so much to support some age-old browsers too.
  - aikah 12y ago
    Well, Microsoft has a huge responsability when it comes to the failure of ES4. No matter what you say. Especially since now everybody is talking about adding type declaration to javascript. We add these in ES4, MS clearly didn't want it because it would have made JS too powerful and threaten MS business.
    - cududa 12y ago
      Yes we were either all there, and the new generation of devs have heard the stories. It doesn't matter anymore and it's exhausting to here people harp on decisions made 15 years ago by a bunch of old dudes who are retired now.
rileytg 12y ago
the expressive but not mobile web
jhack 12y ago
How did they get those numbers for browser support? For example, for CSS3 animations they say that 53.91% can view that feature and they source caniuse.com, but if you actually go to the feature page on caniuse.com it says there's over 88% support.[1] [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation

78 points by smilepet_26 12y ago

It is cute that I am rewarded with achievement messages and awards for simply looking at the different styles. That was certainly all the rage in 2011. I used to get quite excited getting to a new coffee shop level on Foursquare. Sadly, the novelty wore thin.

Kiro 12y ago
What do you mean? Gamification is still all the rage.
- netghost 12y ago
  Achievement unlocked!
danboarder 12y ago
well, this site was published in 2011. I think it is still fun though.

tbassetto 12y ago

You should add [2011] to he title (published on 1st of August 2011).

bshimmin 12y ago
I thought I remembered this from a while ago. I guess it's a permanent beta!
smilepet_26 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot it anyway.

passive 12y ago

I thought the burger building was a really nifty expression of media queries.

jdelatorre312 12y ago

Maybe it's just me, but the links don't seem to be working?

kenrick95 12y ago
http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/ http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/ " It's just you. http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com is up. "

deepuj 12y ago

I remembered seeing this a long time ago - and just verified that it's vintage 2011.

shdon 12y ago

It's not exactly been kept up to date, most obviously by not taking into account IE10 and later. Support for things like box-shadows and gradients is pretty much at least 90% now, close to 100% in the western world.

benbristow 12y ago

// Customizable by Agency - add new domain name

aikah 12y ago

Nothing new year, it has been here for years.(2011) they made it a bit after the job/flash backlash to show that Adobe cared about Open Techs. Well Adobe always cared about Open Tech, it was the main driving force pushing Ecmascript 4, ironically , Microsoft didn't want it,even though they had Jscript.net which was exactly ES4, and are now trying to push Typescript as an alternative to JS. We lost 8 years because Microsoft cared more about Silverlight than making Javascript better...

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
Yeah sure, it's all Microsoft's fault in a decade where the majority of web users are using non-Windows mobile phones. Gosh darn Microsoft for building a high quality cross platform application kit!
- drivingmenuts 12y ago
  And by cross-platform, you mean? That it works well on Microsoft and kinda-sorta on everything else?
  - smilepet_26 12y ago
    yes, it works accross most browsers and in most operating systems. Mordernizer is tweaked so much to support some age-old browsers too.
- aikah 12y ago
  Well, Microsoft has a huge responsability when it comes to the failure of ES4. No matter what you say. Especially since now everybody is talking about adding type declaration to javascript. We add these in ES4, MS clearly didn't want it because it would have made JS too powerful and threaten MS business.
  - cududa 12y ago
    Yes we were either all there, and the new generation of devs have heard the stories. It doesn't matter anymore and it's exhausting to here people harp on decisions made 15 years ago by a bunch of old dudes who are retired now.

rileytg 12y ago

the expressive but not mobile web

jhack 12y ago

How did they get those numbers for browser support? For example, for CSS3 animations they say that 53.91% can view that feature and they source caniuse.com, but if you actually go to the feature page on caniuse.com it says there's over 88% support.[1] [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation