It’s funny, for the longest time I thought IE supported text-shadow natively… huh.
Fortunately, IE Filters are here “to save us” once again.
While none of the filters look particularly good, there are a couple that can be used to create a couple different looks.
The Options
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Internet Explorer Filters
Pros:
- Pure, valid CSS, no JS, no HTC, no tricks, no hacks!
- IE8 offers vendor prefix (-ms).
- IE6/7 use non-proprietary
filter, so can easily put that into IE-only stylesheet. - For better or worse, IE6, 7, and 8 are pretty stable as they are, and so it is pretty easy to know which does, and doesn’t, do what.
- Easy to target specific browser versions if using HTML5 Boilerplate
<head>conditional comments.
Cons:
- Fairly limited set of
filters, and most look pretty crappy. filteris invalid, so stylesheets will not validate, if you care about that.- At least one more line of CSS for each feature…
The Bottom-Line
Use filters, or nothing at all.
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