alt Hacker NewsI always tell myself that I should use backwards-compatible CSS only.
I vividly remember IE and many hacks to have css elements properly working in it…
Imho this is a reason why markdown and other rich-textual formats appeared.
Btw is there a some “w3schools” for recent CSS?
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> I vividly remember IE and many hacks to have css elements properly working in it…
These days the most limiting factor is probably people on phones running out-of-date Android with an ancient browser version. If you aren't caring to test on mobile anyway, as many seem not to, or are happy to not spend time catering specifically for that fraction of a % of people in your target audience, this concern goes away and unless you are targetting an industry known for slowly updating its users desktops you are pretty safe using anything that has been in both Chromium and Firefox for two years or more (a couple of ESR releases ago).
> I always tell myself that I should use backwards-compatible CSS only. > > I vividly remember IE and many hacks to have css elements properly working in it…
The common advice now is to only use CSS that is supported in the last two major versions of each major browser. You can check any css property's support here: https://caniuse.com/
> Imho this is a reason why markdown and other rich-textual formats appeared.
Markdown is a superset of html and through it contains css through the style element
> Btw is there a some “w3schools” for recent CSS?
CSS is constantly changing, I'd recommend the following for how to apply new CSS features:
- https://www.youtube.com/@KevinPowell
MDN is the best technical reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
- You can search any css property in there and it will return all the rulesets for that property.
To see how people are using CSS, I'd recommend:
- Mastodon/fediverse
- Reason: All other social networks only have webdevs who sip the coolaid of whatever trend is happening at the moment, they're not actually interested in learning what CSS can do. However, the web devs in the fediverse are actually interested in what CSS can do.
- You can see the proposals here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues
- Proposals often require experiments which you can find on mastodon/fediverse. For example: https://front-end.social/@kizu
There's also the yearly State of CSS survey to get an overall sense of it: https://2026.stateofcss.com/en-US/
An excellent list of modern CSS: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce.
There's also https://modern-css.com/.
> Btw is there a some “w3schools” for recent CSS?
No better resource than MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
I also like https://css-tricks.com