This CSS3 Module describes how to insert and move content around a document, in order to create footnotes, endnotes, section notes. Inserted content can also introduce counters and strings, which can be used for running headers and footers, section numbering, and lists. Finally, techniques for declaring replaced images, as well as scaling and cropping them using CSS, are described.A couple of neat ideas. Footnotes generated automatically. Cropping images via CSS(Cascading Style Sheets), Named strings; such as using
META tags to set authors and titles, pseudo-elements ::alternate, ::outside, ::before, ::after. There is lots more. Neat stuff. It'll be interesting to see when this stuff starts to get supported. My guess is that some browser will jump the recommendation and start supporting some of these things early.
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Posted at 11:49 AM
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eliot
Cool stuff, but remember how long it took for us to be able to use CSS without too much worry of people being left out? Seems like it was just last year when we could finally use all-CSS layout and no more tables. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic -- very possible.
I would like the footnotes thing feature.
Posted by: eliot | May 16, 2003 12:36 AM
Tony
I agree with you that it took a LONG time to be able to build stuff using CSS only. But now that you have these browsers with a fairly large base that are being rolled out fairly quickly (Mozilla, Camino, Safari, Firebird, Opera) that I can imagine (daydream) that some of these will be implemented sooner rather than later.
And having some CSS that the other browsers will ignore for some of these items (footnotes etc) will be fine with me. I just want them around so I can play with them and go "COOL".
Posted by: Tony | May 16, 2003 06:50 AM