On: What are CSS Shaders?

[pilif]

Why did they need to propose the name filter: for the property? Old versions of IE (5.5ish to 8) supported a filter-property that was hooking into DirectX to do something similar, but by no means identical.

filter: is still used for the various PNG fixes out there.

This is going to cause endless issues and confusion and I just hope IE copes with a filter: it doesn't understand or we will be back to browser-sniffing and serving different markup to different browsers.

[dstorey → pilif]

The CSS filter property comes from SVG [0], and has been around for quite a long time already.

IE 10 will support filters in SVG [1], so IE should be able to cope with it ok.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG10/filters.html#FilterProperty [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/hh440437