dbushell.com (notes) · Jul 6, 2026

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Browser Hacks were a necessary evil in the Internet Explorer days. I thought they were a relic of the past but recently Safari has tempted a resurgence. Eric Meyer’s post on split-cell table headers uses @supports to detect Safari. I gave a drive-by suggestion to Sophie Koonin who adapted this for: “Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix” — that’s a really cool…

Browser Hacks were a necessary evil in the Internet Explorer days. I thought they were a relic of the past but recently Safari has tempted a resurgence.

Eric Meyer’s post on split-cell table headers uses @supports to detect Safari. I gave a drive-by suggestion to Sophie Koonin who adapted this for: “Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix” — that’s a really cool theme! I wish my website was themeable…

I would only use such a technique on sites I actively maintain. You never know what future browser versions might do to break it!

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