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Is it a good idea to use experimental CSS-properties like border-radius, text-shadow, box-shadow and gradient in a layout today? And what about values like rgba()?
When I look at web galleries, these CSS-properties are frequently used and according to articles like on 24ways.org it is not a problem to use these properties.
What is your opinion?
I would say it’s a decidedly bad idea to depend on those properties right now. You can use them, but they won’t work in many browsers.
Off the top of my head:
border-radius,text-shadowandbox-shadowandrgbawon’t work in IE at all. Source for rgba, official IE compatibility table for all CSS propertiesSince IE still holds a remarkable share in the browser market, it would be foolish to ignore it.
The nice thing about all those effects is that it is still possible to create a site that looks great with them, and still decent without them. The only exception to that may be
rgbadepending on the context you use it in.