Stu Nicholls is my hero today; he created a simple, working CSS fluid drop shadow. I literally tried six other drop shadows before I found his, which worked without additional freaking out in my drupal theme. The drupal theme is based on the Holy Grail Layout because I started with the drupal Holy Grail Theme, and apparently none of the other drop shadow systems will work without going back in and hacking that up, which I'm not ready to do.
I'd love to have some of the smooth drop shadows, with support for IE alpha, blah blah blah. Instead, I have these, and they look fine.
The drop shadows I tried, that did not work, are listed here:
- CSS Drop Shadows by Sergio Villarreal
- CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows by Sergio Villarreal
- Simple CSS Drop Shadows by Craig Saila - this is also posted at http://www.evolt.org/article/Simple_CSS_drop_shadows/17/18583/ and even both example pages are broken, in more ways than the failure of the shadows even
- Easy CSS Drop Shadows by Dunstan Orchard
- Onion Skinned Drop Shadows by Brian Williams
Now, I'm not saying that these drop shadows don't work, I'm saying that they are not necessarily straightforward to implement because other styles you may be using are highly likely to conflict with styles and page objects used to create the drop shadow. At least, it happened to me...