What Do You Want from CSS3?
Posted on March 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Being interested in web browsers without having any interest in web development or web standards is probably a bit like being interested in telescopes but not having any interest in outer space (or spying on your neighbors). Therefore, occasionally you’ll see some content here that has less to do with web browsers and more to do with the evolution of web standards, web development, CSS, markup, microformats, etc. This post is an example.
Peter Gasston posted at CSS3 . Info this week reminding visitors to that site that the closing date for letting the W3C know what your priorities are for CSS3 is Monday, March 10th (in other words, get busy). You’re encouraged to leave your feedback as a comment over at webstandards.org, where there are already a whole bunch of suggestions. Some of those suggestions range from requests for the support of constants (though there’s some history on that one) to better form element styling options and control over the color of underlines and strikethroughs to basic animation. If you look hard enough, you might even find a submission from me that goes way back to 2004.
Anyhow, if you’re one of those people spying on your neighbors…I mean that’s interested in web standards and the evolution of CSS, I’d recommend heading over to webstandards.org and letting them know your thoughts before the end of tomorrow (Monday).
Tags: CSS, Web Standards
One Response
Using
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on 
Windows XP
I want a standard that does not try to do too much and that browser vendors can clearly implement within a given time frame.
The last thing the web needs is some zany feature in CSS that someone on the relevant W3C working group thinks is important but is very hard to implement. We need rock solid standards. If that means minor versions then that’s fine.
I want to read:
“and Vendors A, M, Mi and O will all release new browser versions next month, making an early new years (or new decade) present for all web users. For the first time these synchronised releases will bring the CSS2.5 standard to the web in a new commitment to unified support for interoperability. This unprecedented cooperation amongst vendors has been generated by the simplification and ‘minification’ of the CSS3 standard. CSS2.5 was released 12 months ago, December 11th 2008, allowing all vendors a full 12 months to implement it into the coordinated unified release cycle.”