Upcoming CSS features
One of my favorite things about the Open Web is that it is also a living web. As new ideas arise and as new needs manifest themselves, it becomes a matter of time until new features are introduced into a spec. A perfect example of this is CSS, where recently there have been a few new features added to the spec. Best of all, most browser vendors are quite proactive at bringing these new features to their browsers.
In this next section we will look at three new features of CSS, namely CSS shaders, CSS columns, and CSS regions and exclusions. To give you an idea of how active the development of these features is, we will discuss the first feature CSS shaders, which was recently renamed as CSS custom filters. Talk about a fast moving development life cycle.
Programming in the bleeding edge
Although most of the content in this book is somewhat new and state of the art, the majority of the HTML5 features and APIs discussed so far are fairly stable. By that, I mean that just...
