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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Sikora Piotr Sikora
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foundations and Tools 2. Mastering of Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

Additional font and text features


Font features in CSS have changed a lot in the past 5 years. Back in the day, there was no opportunity to use non-standard fonts and as it was described safe for internet. This was one of the issues that made Flash technology trendier, not only because of full Flash pages but because of Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (SIFR). With SIFR, you just needed to attach your font in Adobe Flash and compile the file; you could then use your font on the website. But you had a webpage in HTML with Flash instances. Then, there was a methodology based on JavaScript called cufon. You could use your font to visit the cufon page, compile your font, and then attach cufon.js on your website and your compiled font (JS file). In JavaScript, you needed to add which font should be swapped and finally your font was visible on the website.

Nowadays, we can use font-face and use custom fonts in the web version.

Using non-standard fonts in browsers

If you want to use your font in the...

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