Just written a new post on CSS3.info (the first for a long time), on the subject of the progression of a couple of layout modules through the W3C recommendation process. It’s actually a bit more exciting than I’ve just made it sound.
WAI-ARIA is a relatively new standard from the W3C, which provides semantic information to assisted screen reading technology. It’s fairly rapidly being adopted by browser makers and should become a part of your mark-up toolkit.
As well as being good for accessibility, it’s also useful to provide hooks for CSS and Javascript. Here are a just a couple of quick ways to get started using it.
For no particular reason other than idle curiosity, I made a demo of a broken neon sign, using CSS Animations (you’ll need Firefox 5, Safari or Chrome to see it). It doesn’t degrade well at the moment, the root cause of which is down to what I think is a bug in Firefox’s implementation — I’ll need to confirm that.
One quick learning from making this: it would be really useful to have CSS Mixins when using a lot of repetitive keyframes, as I do in this animation. The W3C seem to be quite against them, however.
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