Marco Casario - CSS3 Solutions: Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers

CSS3 Solutions

Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers

Marco Casario, Nathalie Wormser, Dan Saltzman, Anselm Bradford, Jonathan Reid, Francesco Improta, and Aaron Congleton

CSS3 SOLUTIONS: ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES FOR CSS3 DEVELOPERS

Copyright 2012 by Marco Casario, Nathalie Wormser, Dan Saltzman, Anselm Bradford, Jonathan Reid, Francesco Improta, Aaron Congleton

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Credits

President and Publisher: Paul Manning

Lead Editor: Ben Renow-Clarke

Technical Reviewers: Andrew Zack

Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Louise Corrigan, Morgan Ertel, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Robert Hutchinson, Michelle Lowman, James Markham, Matthew Moodie, Jeff Olson, Jeffrey Pepper, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Gwenan Spearing, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh

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Copy Editor: Roger LeBlanc

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Cover Image Artist: Corn van Dooren

Cover Designer: Anna Ishchenko

To my girlfriend, Katia, for always supporting me in my book projects.

Marco Casario

To my parents.

Nathalie Wormser

To my sister, who told me I could.

Jonathan Reid

To Serena and Alessandro, my life.

Francesco Improta

Contents at a Glance

Contents

About the Authors

Marco Casario has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for the Commodore 64. That was before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the Web using JavaScript and Flash.

In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences, and articles, which you can find listed in detail on his blog ( casario.blogs.com) .

In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste ( www.comtaste.com ) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet and Mobile Applications and the convergence between the Web and the world of mobile devices. Now his focus is on User Experience (UX) aspects to make sure that enterprise software running on several different devices is easy and pleasurable to use, as well as on cloud computing with the Google Apps platform APIs and Google App Engine.

He is also the founder and manager of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite user group, the Italian community of Adobe Flex users ( www.augitaly.com/flexgala ), and the Italian HTML5 Meetup.

Marco is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 4, LCDS 3, and AIR (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert for the LiveCycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver. He is also a SCRUM Master.

Marco is author of several books, including HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers (Apress), Flex 4 Cookbook (OReilly), Professional Flash Catalyst: Building User Experiences for Rich Internet Applications (Wrox), Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers (OReilly), Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers (friendsofED), AdvancED AIR Applications (friendsofED), The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development (friendsofED), and Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers (friendsofED).

His speaking engagements include international conferences such as FlashOnTheBeach, AJAXWorld Conference, O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit, FITC, Adobe MAX, FATC New York, FlexCamp, 360Flex, TAC Singapore, MultiMania Belgium, Adobe CEM, and many others.

Nathalie Wormser is a freelance web developer who is passionate about emerging multimedia technologies , games, and digital educational applications. She is the co-founder of Project Cocoon Multimedia, a development and web design company based in Pondicherry, South India.

Dan Saltzman is a User Experience Architect and Strategist in Denver, Colorado.