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Modernizr

Have you ever wanted to do if-statements in your CSS for the availability of cool features like border-radius? Well, with Modernizr you can accomplish just that! — Now this is promising. I will be testing and writing about Modernizr later this week. Also, read Proudly Announcing: Modernizr by Faruk Ateş.

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prof b

July 2 2009 @ 09:26am #

fyi the italics render really bad. i can’t read that first line of type. maybe it’s because they’re set too small?

Andy Clarke

July 2 2009 @ 09:31am #

@prof b: Thanks for your feedback. I’m assuming that you’re running Windows? The text renders just fine on my Mac browsers, but I’d be keen to solve your problem.

prof b

July 2 2009 @ 09:41am #

uh-aah… mac > firefox 2 alas. 3.0 pissed me right off how slooooow it was. have 3.5 and will install someday soon

Ryan Roberts

July 3 2009 @ 06:48pm #

—“with Modernizr you can start using them right now, with an easy way to control the fallbacks for browsers that don’t yet support them.”


Isn’t that was the cascade is for? I’ve had no problem implementing new features and providing a fallback for older browsers.

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