CSS In Depth

Question 1

Sir-Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 1

• Connecting HTTP client and server, director of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Advocate for open source, interoperable technologies and web standards

Question 2

W3C

Answer 2

• Mission: to insure interoperability
• Standards move through series of stages: working draft; candidate recommendation; proposed recommendation; W3C recommendation (once it reaches third stage, it is implemented in all browsers)
• Things that don’t work in firefox that work in Safari example

Question 3

HTML5

Answer 3

• Enthanced video and audio options including video animation
• Robust support for new APIs (Application Programming Interface) (handshake or exchange between two programs)
• END OF PLUGINS (sort of)

Question 4

CSS 3:

Answer 4

• New features for layout, graphic design, interactivity, and visual depth
• Verticle margin lapse (don’t do bottom margin, just top_)
• Backgrounds: can adust opacity using RGBA and HSLA colors and “background-color” property
• Background gradient (linear)
• Greater background image control
• drop shadows
• Rounded corners
• Styling hyperlinks
• Sidebar (written as an aside)

Question 5

Greater background image control

Answer 5

Repeating (auto), positioning, gradients and solid color

Question 6

Drop shadows

Answer 6

Box and text shadows

Question 7

HTML 5 new elements

Answer 7

< nav > 
< aside >
< article > 
< header > 
< footer >