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Although i've never heard of HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, i found his talk on the next 12 months in CSS and HTML interesting. Certainly a huge achievement proposing and getting approval for CSS standards. It's 16 years old!!! Further research would need to be done to find out what 30 elements of CSS are currently being worked on and their progress. He mentions only a few will make it to final SPEC.
Filip Mares
Since i am designing the UI for Automagical, I've been researching CSS3 techniques for animations and gradients. There are lots of changes to CSS and browser support in the past few years that allows for some awesome animations. i stumbled across this blog post on gradients for designing a menu bar and transitions for cool effects when hovering on and off the <li> element. Additionally, i also discovered a cool gradient property builder tool for WebKit.