jimwhimpey.com— Give text that cool offset raised look with very little CSS and a little, valid xHTML 1.0 strict markup. It's a hard effect to describe you have to see it.
Nov 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
Cool, but you can do all this and more (such as set the amount of blur) with the text-shadow property, and you don't have to write everything twice. Unfortunately, I think Safari is the only browser that currently supports it.
I first saw this technique about 5 years or so ago in a very basic HTML/CSS tutorial. IIRC correctly it said something along the lines of "Of course this is possible but impractical as the text is repeated twice." That still stands today.If you used this for the headline of your site you would see it repeated in the little blurb of text on google's search results.To all these people who say that 99.9999% of users can see properly, have javascript and CSS turned on etc. Googlebot doesnt. And its just about the most important vistor to your site as it will generate more money than any other single user. You could say it generates roughly the same amount of money as the rest of your users put together.
I first saw this technique about 5 years or so ago in a very basic HTML/CSS tutorial. IIRC correctly it said something along the lines of "Of course this is possible but impractical as the text is repeated twice." That still stands today.If you used this for the headline of your site you would see it repeated in the little blurb of text on google's search results.To all th0se people who say that 99.9999% of users can see properly, have javascript and CSS turned on etc. Googlebot doesnt. And its just about the most important vistor to your site as it will generate more money than any other single user. You could say it generates roughly the same amount of money as the rest of your users put together.
clarification: I meant "compute mathematics of any sort" not just displaying formulas and equations. It seems to me that if I wait long enough someone is going to find a way for CSS to properly display the relativistic effects of a blackhole, or they are going to come up with a way to do quantum physics "with CSS". I am not trying to insult CSS or complain about, I am just asking, "is there anything it can't do?"
troubleinmindNov 26, 2006
There is nothing new under the sun. Yawn.
tenebrousxNov 26, 2006
oops, digg me up
zammitNov 26, 2006
this is old "news" - anyone experienced with css could figure this one out.accessibility is indeed important, having the text duped is not practicaleveryone might want to check this out (url says it all):<a class="user" href="http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/css/cross-browser-drop-shadows">http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/css/cross-browser-drop-shadows</a>i'll give this post a pat on the back, but in the end it gets buried.
diagonalfishNov 26, 2006
Amazing that you were able to post a comment then! Truly astonishing! Well done, sir!
idonthackNov 26, 2006
To show you what it's supposed to look like, even if your browser doesn't support CSS (or has a nonstandard implementation).
johnie1Nov 26, 2006
it's a bit janky when you copy/paste the text
daguyNov 26, 2006
Cool, but you can do all this and more (such as set the amount of blur) with the text-shadow property, and you don't have to write everything twice. Unfortunately, I think Safari is the only browser that currently supports it.
robcorneliusNov 26, 2006
I first saw this technique about 5 years or so ago in a very basic HTML/CSS tutorial. IIRC correctly it said something along the lines of "Of course this is possible but impractical as the text is repeated twice." That still stands today.If you used this for the headline of your site you would see it repeated in the little blurb of text on google's search results.To all these people who say that 99.9999% of users can see properly, have javascript and CSS turned on etc. Googlebot doesnt. And its just about the most important vistor to your site as it will generate more money than any other single user. You could say it generates roughly the same amount of money as the rest of your users put together.
robcorneliusNov 26, 2006
I first saw this technique about 5 years or so ago in a very basic HTML/CSS tutorial. IIRC correctly it said something along the lines of "Of course this is possible but impractical as the text is repeated twice." That still stands today.If you used this for the headline of your site you would see it repeated in the little blurb of text on google's search results.To all th0se people who say that 99.9999% of users can see properly, have javascript and CSS turned on etc. Googlebot doesnt. And its just about the most important vistor to your site as it will generate more money than any other single user. You could say it generates roughly the same amount of money as the rest of your users put together.
xzanatosNov 26, 2006
clarification: I meant "compute mathematics of any sort" not just displaying formulas and equations. It seems to me that if I wait long enough someone is going to find a way for CSS to properly display the relativistic effects of a blackhole, or they are going to come up with a way to do quantum physics "with CSS". I am not trying to insult CSS or complain about, I am just asking, "is there anything it can't do?"