Posts Tagged CSS3

CSS3 the upcoming W3 recommendation for Cascading Style Sheets (the current specification is 2.1) has many exciting new features that will allow common design paradigms to be implemented more easily.  Noupe  has an excellent article about some of the most powerful new features of CSS3. Check it out over at http://www.noupe.com/css3/css3-exciting-functions-and-features-30-useful-tutorials.html.

These new features are very exciting and some of them are already implemented as non-standard CSS two open source browser rendering engines. Gecko the rendering engine employed by the mozilla browsers (firefox, mozilla, thunderbird) is able to render rounded corners using CSS3 properties as well as handle object opacity. Webkit, the rendering engine that supports Safari and Konqueror (a linux browser) is also able to implement many CSS3 features. CSS3.info has detailed information about CSS3 support in popular browsers (no small surprise Internet Explorer has little to no support).

Finally for more information about the path of CSS3 and how far away the W3 is from releasing their specification check out the W3 roadmap at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work.

I hope you find this information helpful. I for one am very excited about the release of CSS3.

Regards,

Adam Haney