This article really brought to light for me that today we use CSS for more than just link colors and fonts. CSS is a brilliant way for designers to transform their creative vision into a reality. It’s a way for websites to come to life and for producers to interact with their consumers.
I liked how this article, written by Dan Cederholm, begins with some of the history of CSS. This strategy provides some context to the lesson and I found it interesting to see how far CSS has come since its beginnings. It was definitely an exciting time to be experimenting. For example, I had no idea that there was a stagnant period of time in 2006 when nothing was happening with CSS. Cederholm even calls this period in CSS time boring.
Something that I didn’t understand in this article was what a “spec” is. Cederholm was talking about specs in the section titled “But don’t read the spec.” He mentioned that specs are important references but references to what? I still don’t understand what they are.
Something that I loved about this reading is the section titled “CSS3 is for everyone.” This section made me feel like I can handle CSS and just because I’m a beginner, doesn’t mean that CSS3 is too hard or challenging for me. CSS3 is supposed to make things easier for a designer, and that’s comforting to know. I like the analogy of there being different experience layers to CSS3. That way, anyone can get something out of CSS3 – even if it’s not the most advanced aspect of CSS3.
The article mentioned that large chunks of CSS3 have not yet been implemented in any browser but this made me question – have they been implemented by now? How old and relevant is this article?
I found the vendor prefixes section very helpful because now I know where to find a complete list of them!