It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”
Brecht De Ruyte is a self-taught front-end developer located in Belgium with a passion for UX and Design. After more than a decade of working in tech, he … More about Brecht ↬
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.
CSS, too, has moved on as a language, and yet “CSS3” is still in our lexicon as the last “official” semantically-versioned release of the CSS language.
It’s not as though we haven’t gotten any new and exciting CSS features between 2009 and 2024; it’s more that the process of developing, shipping, and implementing new CSS features is a guessing game of sorts.
We see CSS Working Group (CSSWG) discussions happening in the open. We have the draft specifications and an archive of versions at our disposal. The resources are there! But the develop-ship-implement flow remains elusive and leaves many of us developers wondering: When is the next CSS release, and what’s in it?
