IE Filters...

[pcbrainbuster]

Well hello again people :),

This time i'm not in any trouble or anything but thought some people might like to see what filters can do...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/filter/filters.asp

[mburt]

Meh... no comment.

[boxxertrumps]

Is that... Microsoft documentation?
I think i should read it... but i have no desire to.

These seem to be only usefull if any coders actually wish to use IE.
If it's browser specific, using it on your websites goes against the very thing that makes the web work.
The "write once, run anywhere" philosophy. (slogan of java, but the concept still applies.)

[mburt]

Is that... Microsoft documentation?
Wow... that's extremely rare.

[Twey]

Actually, MSDN has rather a wide range of documentation on IE's CSS and Javascript features, although personally I find it quite hard to navigate.

Filters are a nice idea, but not really useful: they only provide eye-candy effects, rather than anything that really aids usability, and of course since they're IE-only (and Windows-only, due to relying heavily on DirectX), we tend to just ignore them.

[pcbrainbuster]

Well to tell the truth, I wasn't promoting anything... I just put that link up for people who actually wish to learn it...

[tech_support]

Probably we all have already learned it, and then learned to hate it.