CSS3 can do some seriously neat stuff. Just check out some of the crazy 3D stuff you can do in WebKit. But as we all know, we need to be careful with what we choose to do with it. The most cutting edge techniques are fun to play with, but since since only a sliver of browsers support them fully, we can only use them in circumstances where they fall back to otherwise perfectly acceptable styling. Let’s look at a couple of quick, simple, cheezy examples.

Scaling an element is really fun any easy with CSS3. We don’t need CSS3 to do this, we could use relative positioning, offset the position, increase the width, height, and font size. But wow, that’s a heck of a lot of work when we can just apply a scale factor and be done with it. These links get their corners more rounded and a bit of a drop shadow applied on hover as well.