CSS3, along with HTML5, is quickly shaping up to be one of the most exciting and useful Web technologies in years. In this article, I will be explaining some of the new graphics-rich techniques and properties available with CSS3. You will learn what is likely to be approved as part of the final spec, what is still a work-in-progress, and how to deal with cross-browser incompatibilities and lack of support in older browsers.
CSS3 is a collection of modules that extend the previous CSS2 specification that we all know and love. Most of the graphics effects discussed in this article come from the Backgrounds & Borders module. There are a number of other additions in CSS3, some of which are more layout-focused, others enable ways of dealing with content styling that previously required server-side HTML generation or JavaScript.
The important thing to remember is that CSS3 is still a work-in-progress, so just because some of the latest browsers support these features doesn’t mean that (a) you should expect all browsers to support these features soon, and that (b) you won’t have to change how you do things later on once CSS3 becomes a full fledged standard.
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