The Road to the Future Is Bumpy
A few roadblocks continue to impede the widespread adoption of HTML5 and CSS3.
Handling Old Versions of Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer still has a large user base, and versions prior to IE9 have very weak HTML5 and CSS3 support. Internet Explorer 10 improves this situation vastly, but it’s not widely used yet and won’t be made available to people using Windows Vista or earlier operating systems. That doesn’t mean we can’t use HTML5 and CSS3 in our sites anyway. We can make our sites work in Internet Explorer, but they don’t have to work the same as the versions we develop for Chrome and Firefox. We’ll just provide fallback solutions so we don’t anger users and lose customers. You’ll learn plenty of tactics ...
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