The Future
The things we talked about in this chapter improve the user interface; people can still work with our products if their browsers don’t support these new features, but the table won’t styled with stripes, the newsletter won’t be laid out in multiple columns, and people will have to pinch and zoom on their smartphones to easily read the content. It’s good to know that we can use the presentation layer to aid readability instead of having to resort to JavaScript hacks, or, worse, lots of additional markup.
Almost all browsers support these selectors now, with the exception of Internet Explorer 8 and below. When the specifications become final, the vendor-specific prefixes like -moz- and -webkit- will go away. Once that happens, you’ll ...
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