I’ve just found out, from a blog of a web developer (and a damn good designer at that!) that CSS3 exists. To anyone not familiar with web design of the sort then this entry is not for you, for everyone else, read on!

Yes, it seems I have been living under a rock for the past two years and the existence of CSS3 has somehow managed to escape my grasp. Until now, that is! I’m sure it’s common knowledge to most designers now, so you guys can probably just look away but to anyone uninformed, like I was, well CSS3 adds some pretty interest, and equally fun, opportunities for us designers.

CSS3 adds border radius styles, which I’ve known about for some time but never knew it was considered CSS3, as well as border images and the use of custom fonts (which you can ’scr’ link to). Custom fonts don’t really interest me though and quite frankly, I’m not up for the idea if people are going to abuse them and just use them all over the damn place. But border radius’ and border images will be of use, especially for me as I’ve wanted curved borders for a while now (without the fuss of images to aid you).

The problem however lies in the fact that most browsers do not support it. And I’m fairly certain there is no W3C standard for it. Internet Explorer 6 never supported it as far as I know and I’m unsure if Opera does. Mozilla/Firefox does support it but it seems Safari supports it best, at this time. As for IE7, I don’t think it supports it (not from my tests as of now). So even after two years people are still slow on the uptake there, which is sad really.

For more information and some live previews for CSS3, be sure to check out www.css3.info. And yes, I know I’m a bit slow on the uptake myself, =P.