Comments on: Embracing and Using CSS3 Pragmatically

By: Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:38:23 +0000

The New Riders book “Designing with Progressive Enhancement,” by Parker, Toland, Jehl, and Wachs, is tremendously useful for this area of inquiry.

By: Gleenk

Gleenk — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:36:16 +0000

Nice post but I’ll have gone deep into the “progressive” analysis. It could be more interesting ;)

By: Andy Griffin

Andy Griffin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:12:29 +0000

@Spicer: Where’s the “like” button?

By: Jacob Gube

Jacob Gube — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:15:29 +0000

@James: I’m not sure where you got that from; I had to re-read the article to see where your assumption came from.

By: Sony

Sony — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:16:33 +0000

For using the CSS3 options in IE browser, we could add the javascript in document.

By: Troy Peterson

Troy Peterson — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:54:12 +0000

The biggest issue I’ve had is educating clients on CSS3.

We’ll typically present a design with the intention of using CSS 3 for different elements (rounded corners, gradients, etc) and have to educate them that older browsers will see something a little different.

It can be difficult for them to grasp that more advanced browsers will see this, but not all.

Normally, when I give them the explanation that we CAN make it look like this in all browsers, but it will load slower and be more expensive because we need to use images… they accept it.

By: Fabiana Simões

Fabiana Simões — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:49:44 +0000

Well pointed, we have to keep in mind who is our audience.

I guess, if most of your audience is using browsers that support CSS3 properties, you should go with graceful degradation over progressive enhancement, so that you can really take advantage of latest features instead of just adding some rounded corners here and there.

By: Hds

Hds — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:22:02 +0000

That was a very informational article, thank you.

By: Spicer Matthews

Spicer Matthews — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:06:55 +0000

Great post. We at Skyclerk just made the tough decision to kill IE7 support. http://skyclerk.com/blog/attention-internet-explorer-7-users We want to focus our design and programing energies on the future and not get hung up on the past.

It was a big decision. We are more or less discontinuing support for a chunk of our supportive users. We feel by doing this we can dive deeper into css3, html5, and cool javascript stuff.

I love reading postings like this because it is one more step towards wide acceptance of new technologies and funeral of old tech.

By: Andy Griffin

Andy Griffin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:08:48 +0000

This sentence really irks me:
“even though it’s not supported by all browsers (like IE6)”

Duh. IE9 is now the standard. IE6 is a decade old. Microsoft itself has declared IE6 is dead and they are recruiting us to help them kill it. By reminding people to even consider it is perpetuating the problem.
It’s time to drop support for IE6 for good!