PrefACe
This book is the culmination of eight years’ writ-
ing about CSS3, both on the Web and in print. The
browser and CSS landscape has changed a lot in that
short time and continues to change today, bringing
new features and implementations at a rate that’s difficult to keep up with.
The CSS3 specification is written in (often dense) technical language that’s
intended for implementers rather than end users, and my intent in writing
this book was to bridge the gap between specification and web developer.
The book follows a loose order based on stability of implementation: In
the earlier chapters, I cover the CSS properties that are well implemented
and used on a daily basis, but as the book progresses, the technologies
become more experimental and are implemented in fewer browsers. As a
result, in the final few chapters I sometimes rely on interpretation of the
CSS3 specification to explain how future properties should behave. I would
hope that there are few mistakes, but I accept that any that exist are based
on my own misunderstanding.