JAB_Creations - 3:18 pm on Dec 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes, Safari 3.0+ and Firefox 1.5+ have respectable CSS3 support too.

The border-radius property has an obvious immediate effect by removing the need for presentational divisible elements and forcing the browser to download actual graphics.

Multiple background-image support per element also has this same effect and it'll make graphic heavy sites not require a mesh of (X)HTML to add background-images, positioning, etc.

The box-shadow property also reduces (X)HTML meshing and negates further need to force the browser to download purely layout based graphics.

So it will be possible to do much more with basic (X)HTML code.

In regards to transforms they basically negate the need for DHTML, subjectively either entirely or at least partially. With a few dozen characters you can animate (X)HTML elements moving them, resizing them, changing their colors, etc where as with DHTML you'd need a few kilobytes to achieve this if you wrote it on your own or a JavaScript framework.

It's just all all-round awesome release because it really goes a long way towards making our work so much simpler while also giving us more options and of course time.

- John