Re:CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using
by acjohnson55 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @10:06AM
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I feel your pain. At my current gig, we target an IE8 minimum, which still severely limits which of these techniques we can use. Microsoft should be tremendously embarrassed by how bad their browser has been for so long.
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Re:CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using
by drinchev on Sunday October 27, 2013 @10:16AM
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At our company we also support IE8. I almost never touch the CSS and HTML files for that. I just load some polyfills that make IE8 more compatible [1][2][3][4]. It seems like magic, because those scripts give me support even for Foundation 4 out of the box ( they dropped legacy IE8 in v.4 ) and I don't have to think that much for websites such as caniuse, etc...
The downside is that most of the CSS work is done by javascript and if you are one of those IE8 users you will be unsatisfied with the pageload speed, but given the bad architecture of IE8 you will not be surprised by that fact. Although the pages using those polyfills work pretty good.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ [2] http://selectivizr.com/ [3] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond [4] https://code.google.com/p/css3-mediaqueries-js/
Re:CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using
by camus2 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:08PM
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targetting IE8 doesnt mean your site do have to look the same way on IE and modern browsers.
Your site or apps must be functional on IE , doesnt mean you cant give modern browsers users a premium experience.
Now if you work for a businesses that only allow IE broswers then good luck.