ACacdha·Sep 12, 2019
Or load a polyfill only for IE11 users so you can write modern code without orphaning them:
https://github.com/jhildenbiddle/css-vars-ponyfill
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jhildenbiddle / css-vars-ponyfill
css-vars-ponyfill
Client-side support for CSS custom properties (aka "CSS variables") in legacy and modern browsers
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Client-side support for CSS custom properties (aka "CSS variables") in legacy and modern browsers
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 2018 | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2018 | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2019 | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2019 | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2019 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2019 | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2019 | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2019 | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2019 | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesGreat suggestion, but due to extremely poor support [0], it might be best to use a polyfill [1]
[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
[1] https://github.com/aaronbarker/css-variables-polyfill (or https://github.com/jhildenbiddle/css-vars-ponyfill)
Personally, I don't like forcing JS to make things render properly on the client, but it depends on the project whether it's acceptable or not.
However, it kind of defeats the purpose, because if you're willing to use a polyfill, then you may as well use sass or less as a solution anyway (and get a range of benefits that they provide).
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