CSS3

I know we still have quite a bit of lobbying and pestering to go before IE7 version X supports even CSS2 in its entirety. That said, the Opera team has continually updated their progress in support for CSS3. Several browsers, at this point, have adapted rudimentary versions of CSS3 columns support, as well as transparency, shadows, and background manipulation.

The latest post on Opera's CSS3 support has some very promising aspects to it, considering that functionality such as alternating table row styles, special formatting of empty elements, all off the of-type rules, and many more have the potential to reduce the workload of designers and developers by quite a bit. I know that I, for one, have emulated most of those mentioned using extra markup, scripting, or both throughout the last few years...