Over the last couple of days I’ve been re-skinning my blog, browser testing and fixing any bugs that cropped up but as you can see this time I went for a more minimal look with some css3 love. Additionally I’m only supporting FireFox 3 and Safari 3 because I’m sick and tired of IE’s oddities and it’s stupid css rendering. Development should be seamless and should work across all browsers at once but this isn’t the reality and we (front-end developers) endlessly mumble and groan at stupid IE! So if you’re viewing this site in IE I’m sure you were greeted with a nice and polite message.
Like I mentioned earlier I’m using some css3 selectors more specifically I have a custom font being applied to all my headings using @font-face no Sifr or typeface here though I’m sure they have their advantages. It’s a good time for experimentation because Safari and FireFox are fairly neck and neck in terms of css3 support – with exception for animation support in FireFox. Developers should now start implementing css3 styles where possible for future enhancement and not always have IE6 in the back of the mind and force it to do something that it isn’t capable of. Yes majority of the users will be pissed that something looks broken in IE6 but if we developers tell the users to upgrade their browsers to get a better web experience, then I’m sure the minor inconvenience will pay dividends to developers and users alike. If this doesn’t happen then the web isn’t going anywhere and we’re just going to have to wait till IE6 drops enough marketshare for it to be completely dropped. With that being said browsers are changing much faster than before in terms of javascript and css rendering and it’s already allowing developers to add new features to websites and web applications so i guess that’s a positive sign.
Wow, that was a tangent. 
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