After spending a portion of the weekend coding my shiny new site I’ve really got the CSS bug again. So I was delighted when I checked Smashing Magazine for new articles and stumbled on their latest article about CSS3!

As usual, their article is an amalgamation of many many sources and very comprehensive. Wide support for attribute selectors is particularly good news as it means no more damn id’s on inputs! Psuedo classes look particularly useful for lots of things, but support for odd/even in table rows is pretty cool. Columns, Shadows (text and background), Border Images, Word Wrap are all very cool, but what I’m bowled over to see is multiple layered backgrounds. It’s a feature I’ve craved for so long, but honestly never expected to see, AND IT’S HERE!

At 3DPixel made the decision a few months ago that 7 years was a pretty good run for Internet Explorer 6, and that enough was enough. So we killed support for it in all future projects.

At the time, I don’t think I really considered the implications this would have to future designs, but 2 projects down the line, I have to say THANK GOD. I feel like a coder reborn (cheesy I know), I’ve rediscovered the joys of transparency, inline-blocks, and padding that doesn’t make me want to tear my own face off.

I’m also actually taking the time to look into CSS3, now that there’s actually a chance I’ll use it. Rounded corners are a godsend!

So I’d encourage any other coders out there to follow in the footsteps of 3DPixel, Facebook, Apple.. and numerous other big name websites, and lets kill it off for good!