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Re:Ask HN: Better to use Javascript or CSS by karlclement on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:39PM (#2140746)
Hello there,

I would have to agree with symmet, you need both. This way if a user doesn't have a recent version of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera you can have jQuery to fall back on.

-You can use browser detection to conditionally enable jQuery scripts on page load. You can use Javascript/jQuery or a server-side script to detect exactly which browser is loading the page.

-You can also check out http://www.modernizr.com/. It adds classes to the html element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Let me know if you need any help with that,

Good luck!

Karl

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Re:Ask HN: Better to use Javascript or CSS by hypotenuse on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @09:12PM (#2141810)
I agree. Here's a Javascript snippet I saw recently that is a useful start for doing this (read the comments for some ideas of what you may or may not need to modify): http://www.bradshawenterprises.com/blog/2011/a-jquery-functi...
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