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With the huge popularity of mobile touch devices and the current major drive to make everything web related compatible with these devices, today’s Design Reviver Answers discussion is certainly relevant with current development trends. The question that was asked was “Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past?”

You can leave your thoughts and point-of-view below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past?

Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past?

This question was originally asked by Mpstud.

The best answer comes from Darrell Estabrook :

Thanks to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time and effort to offer helpful and useful answers.

Everybody wants to use CSS 3 now that even Internet Explorer will support parts of it once IE 9 is out. But since parts of CSS 3 are still subject to change, most browsers use a vendor prefix for many CSS 3 properties to signal that their implemenation is “experimental� and may change in a later version of the browser.

This means that for a property like border-radius to work cross-browser you need to specify it several times with different vendor prefixes, like this:

1. .box {
2. -moz-border-radius:10px;
3. -webkit-border-radius:10px;
4. border-radius:10px;
5. }

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Posted in Browsers, CSS.

The new and revitalized CSS3 properties have not only opened up many, many marvelous development solutions for web designers, it has also allowed talented developers to push the boat out further and showcase there CSS skills by building and styling in ways that were never ever thought possible previously.

In today’s news round-up we take a look at some of these amazing experimental pure CSS3 creations…

Please note, you will need either the latest version of Safari or the Chrome browser to fully experience these CSS3 experiments.

iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

iPhone CSS3

iPhone CSS3

Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale

Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale

Pure CSS Animated 3D Super Mario Icon

Pure CSS Animated 3D Super Mario Icon

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

It’s quite obvious that the smaller the files that make up your website are, the less time your visitors will wait for them to download. One way of reducing file sizes is minimising JavaScript and CSS files by removing comments and whitespace, among other things.

To do that, you can either let the server do it for you or minimise the files yourself before uploading them to the server. Letting the server do it automatically is probably the most convenient way since you don't have to remember to do it. But it isn't practical or possible for everyone to use something like minify, so sometimes you'll need to do it manually.

That may sound like more trouble than it's worth. Luckily for us TextMate users there's a handy YUI Compressor TextMate bundle that makes it almost as transparent as the server-side solution.

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Posted in CSS, Coding, JavaScript.

Sometimes to get your development juices flowing you just need a meaty project or an in-depth tutorial that you can sink your teeth into and lose yourself for a few hours in coding bliss. And that’s what we have for you today, three tutorials that will satisfy your code craving! They are not only roll-up-your-sleeves and put-on-a-pot-of-coffee good but they will also introduce you to some of the latest CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery techniques.

A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface

In this awesome tutorial you will learn how to create a useful hover-based user interface using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and @font-face. The project you’ll be creating could easily be used for a portfolio or business site and the concepts you’ll learn could certainly be used to expand the idea further.
A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface

Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs

In this tutorial, you will build a dynamic FAQ section. The script, with the help of jQuery & YQL, will pull the contents of a shared spreadsheet in your Google Docs account, and use the data to populate the FAQ section with questions and answers.
Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs

How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn't needed anymore. In this tutorial,you'll be shown how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal looking chart using visualize.js, a very useful jQuery plugin.
How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).