Cutting edge web technologies never come without a cost. Sometimes it means limited browser support for emerging standards, and other times it means having to go back and rewrite your code when draft ...

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The CSS 3 box-shadow property allows for drop shadows and other gradient-based effects without the need for images or other hacks. Box shadow works in Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet ...

Major browsers support CSS3 gradients (including Internet Explorer 10), but with different rendering engines, it's still good to have fallbacks. Designing the presentation layer of an HTML5 ...

Microsoft’s new browser, Edge, has a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Like Edge, the new rendering engine is only available in Windows 10, but it does more than just power the company’s new browser: It ...

Why it matters: There are software flaws that tend to persist even in the most active projects. An open-source browser like Firefox, however, strives to be a true record-setter with decades-old bugs ...