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Supporting older browsers—Part 2: CSS

Zell Liew 🤗 on November 28, 2018

There are two ways to provide fallbacks for CSS features: Property fallbacks Feature queries Other articles in this series Par...
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studmuffin30

i watch that Jen simmons vids on initial-letter,no matter what it seems doesnt support it except for safari browser,even if i put feature @support webkit or anything,unless the browser supports the initial-letter property itself

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Peter Hoffmann

I don't see this series pointing in my direction as "I don't support IE 11" is not working for my company. We are down to IE9.
Fallback values might work for single properies but you usually do a whole set of instructions when desining an element.
What I missed in the first post was a discussion about the need to use non-supported features in the first place. The whole toppic is extremly anoying but unfortunately neccessary to discuss.

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Zell Liew 🤗

If you really need to support read old browsers, then consider not using the latest updates in the first place.

Nobody said you have to use them. There’s always decent workarounds if you keep your eyes out for them.