The great thing (or not so great, depending on your view) is that older browsers will simply ignore the markup they don't understand. That allows you to gracefully fallback for older legacy browsers.
-Dan On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Scott Stewart > <webmas...@sstwebworks.com> wrote: >> I'm starting to dig into HTML 5, and so far, apart from some of the >> CSS3 attributes, I don't see anything that jumps out and says "ready >> for prime time". The browser support is spotty at best, let's be real >> does it really matter if Opera supports something? If IE and Firefox >> don't have support for something then it's not mainstream, am I wrong >> here? > > This page has demos of various features with indicators of which > browsers support what: > > http://html5demos.com/ > > IE8 supports some HTML5 stuff already and Microsoft appear to be > strongly behind HTML5 based on a recent presentation I saw that talked > about HTML5/CSS3 support in IE8 and IE9. Given how laggardly they've > been in the past about standards, I was pleasantly surprised by their > (apparent) stance on this. > > A number of companies are pushing HTML5/CSS3 pretty hard... > > As for production work, it's going to depend on your target audience. > Some people are still constrained to support IE6, some people are able > to push the envelope. The support for HTML5/CSS3 in browsers on mobile > devices will probably be the key issue here. > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
