Chapter 6. Interesting CSS Features for Your Web Application User Interface

HTML5 takes document semantics even further than previous versions of the language. However, if you've been a front-end developer for some time, you must be conscious that an appealing design often implies hard dilemmas and superfluous markup. In this chapter, we'll go through a number of CSS features that are going to make your web application developing process much faster, richer, and cleaner. Some make long-awaited enhancements hassle free and easy to maintain, and others are more complex but are going to open a whole new range of layout and design opportunities for your web application on Mobile Safari.

Note that many of the features explained in this chapter are either ...

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