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So I'm a little late, and everyone has already written about the wholesome goodness behind Firefox 1.5. I first installed it today, and haven't started peeking around too much, but I did check out the "what's new" page over at developer.mozilla.org. To name just one of the supported standards, Firefox 1.5 has partial CSS3 support. I believe the spec is still in progress.

I don't know all the ins and outs of every standard used by the web, but all of the recent Web 2.0 hype makes me more curious about things like CSS3. One particular feature I've read about is CSS3 columns. A wiki-ish write-up over at mozilla.org goes into detail about CSS3 columns.

To sum it up, multiple columns in a wide screen browser window are easy to read. As you view the webpage in a narrower window, multiple columns become very narrow and less readable. CSS3 columns let you switch back to a single column if the browser window gets to narrow. For an example, check out the referenced blog that uses them. They are neat in action, but make sure you have Firefox 1.5 installed, or all hell may break loose in your browser.

An even cooler bell and whistle is support for the canvas tag. Find out more here and be sure to check out the Canvas tutorial. You can make animated games with this thing: Canvas Adventure

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