I would love to see gradients included in the next CSS spec, I didn’t look too closely, so someone may have said this already… but I would very much like to be able to do the following.
*Edges*
drop-shadow: (distance) (opacity) (color);
corner-radius: (size);
*Background*
gradient: (with ability to change direction and median point i.e. begin gradient -100px or 100px);
opacity: (percentage);
These little improvements would bump up loadtime dramatically for my site. It would be great to use CSS for this, instead of loading up images. This way we can get the nice alpha transparency of PNG files, and the ability to degrade gracefully for older browsers.