HTML5 and CSS3 can produce some amazing websites. The problem is, many browsers don’t fully support the new capabilities. If you don’t plan for those viewers, your carefully crafted site could look like a pile of… well, you get the picture.
Modernizr is a JavaScript library that you can use as a starting point when building websites that work for every circumstance. The new version, Modernizr 2, includes improved Media Query testing, 40 feature detection tests,
instructions on conditional resource loading, and more.
This open-source tool is free. The team behind Modernizr 2 has written extensive documentation and says it will be adding even more tutorials soon. While it’s by no means a WYSIWYG way to build HTML5 websites, Modernizr 2 is a valuable resource for the code-savvy Web designer.
For much more information, visit the Modernizr site.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on June 2, 2011
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