NetTuts + had a pretty interesting post recently on their blog. They discussed developing a website using HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards, which is on the brink of becoming the standard languages for websites. Safari, Chrome, and Firefox are already on board. This has been a huge thing I’ve been looking towards, so I thought I’d share a few of my favorite features in regards to CSS 3.
One of the biggest things I’m looking forward to is the @font-face property. Basically, I can kiss Arial and all those boring fonts goodbye, and use something that looks much nicer and appealing to each individual website. It’ll add more uniqueness, and give me the ability to have fully integrated designs.
Secondly, border image. This will allow me to showcase photos or other images with a secondary border. Squiggly lines, rainbows, you name it. You could kinda do it before, but now it’s better. And it’s all in the code.
Lastly, and maybe this is one of the biggest features out there – transparency. Web designers have used transparent GIFs or (more recently) PNGs for years, and now this will allow us to add transparency without having to look to image editing programs to achieve the effect. It’ll be a huge time-saver, and I’m placing a bet that it’ll be the most used features of CSS 3 in 2010.
So, why aren’t I and other web designers out there using these features right now? After all, the technology certainly is there. One reason really — 46% of Internet users currently aren’t able to access the features. Why? Internet Explorer. There’s ways around that, but they’re much more difficult to implement.
Despite that single drawback, I’m quite excited to see what sites start to pop up with these features enabled. Maybe it’ll even go so far as to push people away from IE once and for all! mbqzjxdf3r
Tags: chrome, css, firefox, html, internet explorer, safari
