Some months ago a feature landed in Xamarin.Forms that seemed to truly polarize the Xamarin.Forms community: support for styling applications using CSS.Some argued that it was an unnecessary ...

He uses small background images that are places with CSS. Then, the classNames for the form elements are swithced with JavaScript. Marko also uses JavaScript to preloaded the custom images.

Yes, we'll still be supporting IE 7 and IE 8 for some time, and yes, IE9 still lacks a few things, like support for CSS 3 text-shadows or HTML5's form elements, but it's a step in the right direction.