Re: Remove old "News" entry from home page

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno dom 19 lug 2015 alle 12:43, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha
> scritto:
>>>  The graceful degradation would require some external javascript
>>>  library like jquery...
>>
>> Seriously?  That would be another unexpected dollar in my "can
>> standard
>> committee engineers really be that stupid" account.  I really hope you
>> are wrong about that, but as I said: if I had a dollar every time I
>> overestimated the common sense of standard creators...
>
> It's not as you see it.
> AFAIK, if you want to make a slider you need either CSS3 animations or
> a javascript library. CSS2 does not have animations. It's not
> engineers' fault, it's just a new feature that old browsers do not
> support natively.

I am not talking about CSS2 having to do animations.  I am talking about
just displaying the content without interpreting the parts of CSS it
does not understand.

> The options are:
>
> 1. Use CSS3 animations and prompt users with old browsers to upgrade
> to a new one (I know that it's not accepted here).

I was talking about "use CSS3 features as long as the behavior when
those are not supported still makes sense".

-- 
David Kastrup