CSS3: Native CSS gradients in Opera

Opera finally supports native CSS gradients and I don’t mean that nasty solution using SVG. There is one limitation, though. For now, there is support for linear gradients only, so no radial ones will be displayed.

Note: At the time of writing this article, CSS gradients were supported in beta version of Opera 11.10 Baracuda. All stable versions 11.10 and up will support this.

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CSS3: True cross-browser gradients

Recently I saw number of articles describing cross browser CSS3 techniques, that were not really taking into account all browser that they should. OK, I admit, maybe they’ve addressed all relevant browsers, but still – it won’t hurt to know couple more solutions. So here are my a-bit-more-cross-browser CSS gradients.

Updated: Opera 11.10 Baracuda supports native CSS gradient. Read full story.

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CSS Reset v2.0

Few weeks back there was a heavy discussion about usefulness of CSS Resets. One group of people strongly support CSS Reset and the other one states, that it can do more harm than good. If you are interested in knowing more about the dilemma of CSS Reset follow this link.  I don’t really mind the outcome as in the end, the only thing that matters is that your pages should really work with or without CSS Reset.

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Google Analytics: How to measure file downloads

I’ve been using Google Analytics for some time now. Most of the time, its usage is very straight forward. However, there are ways of using this tool, that might not be so obvious. Especially if you are not as bright as Einstein. Perhaps the greatest not-so-obvious feature of GA is possibility of measuring file downloads. I’ve looked into this and here is what I found out.

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CSS Reset

While coding our projects, almost everybody comes to a point, where we want to locate and kill (or at least injure) developers of different browsers for non-uniform default HTML formating or CSS implementation. I can only guess, why these guys cannot agree on one standard solution (all hail W3C). Regardless of this, we all have to do our jobs and live with it. So how can we make our work less frustrating or even get things done faster? Answer is CSS Reset.
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