What about CSS3?

We’ve been having a close look at the current situation with CSS3.

Currently the vast majority of websites (including all those produced by us) are designed using CSS2, which lets us lay the page out and make everything look pretty. CSS 3 offers some utterly brilliant features which could make a designer’s day-today life much easier (reduced hair loss, no need for "post-CSS whiskey" and so forth). Of course life is never simple.

Compatibility Issues

CSS3 requires website visitors to use a compatible web browser, which at the moment are only available as very early test versions that aren’t suitable for 99% of users. It remains to be seen how long it will take until we can climb out of the squalid pit of coding despair that is CSS2 and up the softly-lit, plush-carpeted staircase to the cloud-floored nirvana that is CSS3.

Support is at least starting to edge its way into the latest versions of the 4 major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox with Opera and Safari keeping up at the back) but it will likely be a couple of years before production websites are using CSS 3 and we have the jelly and ice cream on standby!

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