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sand•box |ˈsan(d)ˌbäks|: Computing a virtual space in which software or Web sites can be tested,
evaluated, or developed before being made generally available.

Welcome to the sandbox of Colin Helvensteijn, aka raptor.

This web site shows off what can be done using some advanced CSS2 and little bit of CSS3.

If you're using a WebKit or Gecko based browser (Safari, Firefox) to view this web site, you'll see the corners of the content box are rounded. That's pure CSS, no images are used for that. WebKit based browsers and Opera will also apply a text shadow on some places.

Another interesting feature of CSS is that it can actually display the content of HTML tag attributes, like title. An example of that can be seen on the Links page. It will work in any browser with decent CSS2 support (that negates Internet Explorer).

I intend to utilize some more of these modern but mostly unofficial and unsupported CSS here. Just for fun basically. :-)

The CSS on this web site will not validate. That's because the W3C CSS validator doesn't support CSS3 yet, and also because some browser-specific properties are used that haven't made it to the W3C's CSS3 draft yet.

Most of the content here comes straight from my main web site, Helvensteijn.com. Some things (blog, photos page) are left out though. This page is different, too, for obvious reasons. :-)