HTML5 and CSS3, 2nd Edition

Chapter 11Where to Go Next

We’ve covered a lot in this book, but there are many other related technologies that make web development even more exciting, including 3D-canvas support with WebGL, new ways of defining layouts with the Flexible Box model, and the ability to make Ajax requests without worrying about the same-origin policy. If that’s not enough, we can process data in the background, push messages from the server to the client, and apply filter effects to elements as if we were using a graphics program.

Although the specifications may be a bit in flux and they may not be supported everywhere, the tools covered in this chapter can be valuable in the right situations. Here’s what we’ll look at:

Flexible Box model

Creates better ...