What the hell is hard boiled? As Andy sips a Manhattan.
This is what CSS3 was made for, http://www.anthonycalzadilla.com/css3-ATAT/index.html.
We use standards to tell us what we can’t do, not what we can do.
Progressive Enhancement
Builds for least capable devices first, then moves on to enhance those documents to allow a richer experience for those users with modern graphical browser software.
Rethink notion of progressive enhancement. From the top down, instead of the ground up. We can’t be stuck on a doctrine written seven years ago without enhancing it. We should be using these as the core of what we do, instead of just visual treats.
Letting Go
People need to let go of the notion of sites need to look the same in every browser. They can’t! Carry on. Then try to find ways of explaining that to the ones we work for.
W3C is not an innovation body. CSS working group is made up of pay-to-play organizations and companies with the goal of advancing their business objectives. CSS animations, Safari was the first to implement this – try to imagine their objectives for this.
When is the last time you checked your site in san-serif? You design for the first font in the list.
What Does Browser Testing Mean?
Making sure the design people see is appropriate to the device that they are using, so they don’t see something that looks broken, incomplete or inappropriate.
Vendor Prefixes. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html
Just say no to Microsoft filters. If their customers are having a lesser experience, this should be their motivation to innovate.
CSS3 pseudo class selector for IE 5.5 – 9. http://www.keithclark.co.uk/labs/ie-css3/
Modernizr, a JavaScript toolkit that allows you to use cool new CSS3 and HTML5 features while maintaining a fine level of control over browsers that don’t. http://www.modernizr.com/
Universal IE6 stylesheet – http://code.google.com/p/universal-ie6-css/
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