Re: Shadow style compliance

Wayne Brissette wrote:
>> This won't work for non-WebKit browsers, but really, who gives a crap  
>> about them? ;^)
> 
> That's the nice thing about remaining compliant, you can choose who to be compliant with and who not to be compliant with (ala MS). Depends on who your audience is I guess, but if this is for something that matters, I wouldn't do this. Again, this may just be the technical writer in me coming out, but I hate when something only works in certain browsers.

The text-shadow property is part of the CSS2 spec. Certainly one should
aim to make web pages that are usable in any browser, but why not use
modern features (or in this case, features from 1998...) to make them
look nicer in better browsers? CSS has well-defined error handling -- if
a browser doesn't understand the text-shadow property, it simply ignores
the rules that use it and moves on.

- Josh