Solipsus

It is interesting that now I am working within a web media company, I find myself learning more and more about advancements in technology, coding languages and the like. I was very keen to hear about a new “version” of CSS which would in essence make our lives so much easier. It has been in development for quite some time now, but there are still no signs of a set release date (correct me if I am wrong).

I am not even sure if there is a ‘release’ date, but whether when browsers will universally support the new specification which is being developed by W3C. I suppose maybe some of the more tech-savy could help us out?

When I design for the web, I am in a safe zone where I know I can code what I make, but in my job I am handed a design which is covered in background gradients, containers with drop shadows, rounded corners and gradient backgrounds - easy to code if it were to be fixed height and width, but the everyone seems to want them to be liquidated so that they can really change it if they want to. This therefore means that I have to create about 50 nested DIV’s (I might be exaggerating a little) to give the required effect thanks to the ‘creatives’ design.

Thankfully, CSS3 will be the answer to our prayers and will mean that our code will be shrunk drastically thanks to modification of a few CSS rules. For example, gradients, drop shadows and rounded corners will be a lot easier to construct thanks to “background:”. Yes we have this already, but with CSS3 we will now be able to have multiple background images for one element, and specify the position of each! If that was too hard to understand (which usually is the case with me) this website can help explain more.

Ben