It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5” — Smashing Magazine
August 14, 2024
We have been talking about CSS3 for a long time. Call me a fossil, but I still remember the new border-radius property feeling like the most incredible CSS3 feature. We have moved on since we got border-radius and a slew of new features dropped in a single CSS3 release back in 2009.
Way back in early 2005 I coined a term, Web 2 (no really I did here’s sort of proof).
Unlike the Web 2.0 that the folks at O’Reilly imagined, which focussed on use cases what you might call a user generated web, a web of blogging, and collective creation, before social media enclosed those commons) my definition was about the technologies used to build the Web.
Point is, versioning and branding are important as the folks as the W3C CSS-Next community group have been discussing.
CSS3 and even more HTML5 related really considerable excitement at their inception. The way we develop new web technologies there’s no big bang of exciting new features the way Apple’s platforms get with WWDC, or Google’s with I/O, and so on.
So I’m all for CSS5 and beyond!
