It's always hard to get excited by such new 'fancy' CSS features when the examples (espcially the gradient and pattern ones) look like Word Art renderings.
But I recall such kinds of post flourishing when people were discussing box-shadows, text-shadows and background-gradients a few years back. Examples also tended to exaggerate the effects for the sake of demonstrating the capabilities. Anyway, these CSS features ended up being useful for designers like me. So I'm trying to overlook the visually strong examples of these CSS properties and envision their future implementations in a more subtle way.
But I recall such kinds of post flourishing when people were discussing box-shadows, text-shadows and background-gradients a few years back. Examples also tended to exaggerate the effects for the sake of demonstrating the capabilities. Anyway, these CSS features ended up being useful for designers like me. So I'm trying to overlook the visually strong examples of these CSS properties and envision their future implementations in a more subtle way.