Firefox 3.5 new HTML5 features should be combined carefully (tinyurl.com)

1 points by bugmenot ↗ HN
What happens if you decide to pack all the new HTML5 stuff that Firefox 3.5 supports above and beyond older versions onto a single page? Here's a list of of just some of what's on the page: 1. Webfont 2. Text Shadow 3. Box Shadow 4. Border Image 5. Transparent Background Gradients 6. Ogg Audio

And that's before you start doing anything, like hovering over things or resize the browser, which includes: 1. Styling list numbers 2. aPNG inside text 3. SVG filters inside and behind text 4. CSS Transformations tilting whole paragraphs 5. Media queries that change the text-size and background when the width of the browser is thinner than the height 6. A Clicked link becoming an iframe of that link

The result of all this? Something akin to the old days of blink tags, animated GIFs and bgsound perhaps, not to mention half of it isn't even visible in any other browsers. I guess I can be glad that View -> Page Style -> No Style still gives an old fashioned black & white text page... now get off my lawn!

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