Our clients still use IE8. I think all most all of them. That's the only reason that matters to my superiors, or my clients.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Eric <e...@minerbits.com> wrote: > I realize that this thread has gone off in other direction but I have a > question - > > Given that SVG is support universally except for very ancient UAs (IE8 is > south of 5% now) why bother with a fallback image? Why not just give them a > background-color? > > Seems like a whole lot of wasted work for a drop int he bucket of users. > > Eric > >> On August 5, 2014 at 9:00 AM Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> List, >> >> I was having a discussion in the comments of an article about using >> svg as a background-image in CSS, and using a png as fallback. I was >> writing it like this: >> >> background-image: image.png; >> background-image: image.svg; >> >> But this fails in IE8 (and presumably in other non-svg-supporting >> browsers). >> >> My thought was that it would work like background-color does. >> >> Sample page: >> http://tomliv.com/nick-test/ >> >> Just trying to learn here. Why does the cascade not work in both cases? >> >> -- >> >> Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | >> ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] >> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >> List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
