I have a problem that I want you to help me, I am currently making a website, I am building that website on HTML5 and CSS3 technology, every feature I’d like to use I check it first in “CAN I USE“, the technology I use most is box-shadow, and I already made some great things with it but, I have a doubt about the percentage of browser that don’t support that technology, the percentage of browser that do not support box-shadow is around 17.12%, and if you see the conclusions (show options => other options => show conclusions) they say that that feature isn’t ready yet because they are “Waiting for Opera Mini 5.0-6.0 to expire”, I personally think that the best that we can do in order to make people update their browsers is not support older browser, but …
am I right thinking like this?
will I have bad consecuences if I don’t support older browsers?
is worth to work twice just to support older browsers?
should I still working with box-shadow?
As always….
Progressive Enhancement.
Build your site so it works well for everybody regardless of their browser settings and capabilities. Then add features that enhance the experience but don’t cause the site to break for those who cannot take advantage of that feature.