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Main CSS3 innovations
CSS3 brings great innovations destined to the web design and some browsers start to implement CSS3. The inicial aim of CSS is to separate the content from the shape, which was already achieved with the first language specifications. However the aim of offering full control over the page elements to the Designers has been a difficult task to fulfill.
The previous language specifications had multiple utilities in order to apply different styles to the website, but despite of that, developers still keep their own tricks to achieve common purposes or as desired as rounded edges and shady elements on the page. So, the most important innovation provided by CSS3 for websites developers, consist on new resources additions to keep higher control on the showed page elements, avoiding old Tricks or hacks, that uses to complicate the website code. Here is the main newcomers qualities in CSS3:
border-color
border-image
border-radius
box-shadow
Backgrounds
background-origin
background-clip
background-size
Create layers with multiple background images
Colour
HSL colours
HSLA colours
RGBA colours
Opacity
Text
text-shadow
text-overflow
Long words break
Interface
box-sizing
resize
outline
nav-top, nav-right, nav-bottom, nav-left
Selectors
Attribute selectors
Basic box model
overflow-x, overflow-y
Others
Media queries
Multiple text columns creation
Web discourse oriented properties or automatic reading of web pages
Information source: http://www.desarrolloweb.com/articulos/sombras-css3-box-shadow.html
