inTroduCTion
Let me tell you a little about who I think you are:
You’re a web professional who’s been hand-coding
HTML and CSS for a few years; you’re pretty comfort-
able with creating complex layouts, and you know not
only your div from your span but also your bold from your strong; you’ve read
a little about CSS3 and may even have started experimenting with some of
its more decorative features like rounded corners, but you want to gain a
deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
The Book of CSS3 helps you leverage the excellent knowledge you have
of CSS2.1 in order to make learning CSS3 easier. I won’t explain the funda-
mentals of CSS (except for the occasional reminder), as I assume you know
them already. I won’t talk you through step-by-step demonstrations of using
CSS to make a listed navigation or an image gallery, because I assume you
can apply the examples in this book to anything you want to build on
your own.
I’ll introduce you to what you can do with CSS3 now and show you what
you’ll be able to do with it in the future. At the same time, I’ll take the dense
technical language of the CSS3 specification and translate it into language
that’s plain and practical.