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Radioactive buttons

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

CSS3 has given us a number of new tools to make beautiful, responsive and interactive web experiences. Among the improvements are CSS animations, which allow us to animate elements without having to turn to flash or javascript.

Here’s a quick look at how to make a radioactive button like this one (if you’re viewing this page in Safari, Chrome or another webkit browser), using only CSS3 and the necessary markup:

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Hello world!

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post.

Not really. It’s my first post in quite a while, though. I thought it might be a good idea to welcome you all to the 12th version of Antidecaf.com.

This time the whole site is a bit of an experiment and a work in progress. I’m playing around with some (relatively) new structural tags from HTML5, as well as some (relatively) new styling techniques from CSS3. I still have a lot of tweaking yet to do and I realize everything does not look perfect in every browser. Chances are I won’t bother fixing every display bug in older versions of IE either. But still: feel free to leave a comment if something annoys you, or should annoy me. I’ll try to share my experiences along the way.