Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients
Mar
2
2010
Using progressive enhancement techniques in web design is good practice—where new browsers can take advantage of improvements in HTML standards and new CSS capabilities.
Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks, has written an excellent article discussing a CSS3 progressive enhancement technique for rendering gradients, whilst retaining a fallback image-based option for non-compliant browsers. Read the post here.
I’m all in favour of improving page load times as you’ll see from other posts on Brightscape here, here and here. Therefore, I found this article of interest and felt it worthy of sharing with the community.