CSS 3 - The Long Road to a Brighter Place
September 20th, 2007 Posted in CSS, Web Design
In the past few years CSS has really come though and to not use it is frowned upon by peers, but the problem is that it isn’t implemented the same inside every browser. Some browsers render complex CSS perfectly and some perform pretty badly. The Acid 2 test is a pretty good indicator of how good the browser is in this department. You can see some comparisons on the Acid 2 test Wikipedia page.
Over six years in the making CSS 3 will help spice things up and make life easier, especially for multi-column based sites (like newspapers), but I can’t help but feel that it’s going to be at least 5 years before every browser is compatible… and by that I mean we’ll be waiting on IE.
Note: There is a nice web site that previews CSS 3 called CSS info.