Which browsers support filter:shadow?

[zoobie]

I know IE does...Any others? Thanks :p

[WA]

Only IE as far as I know, and only the Windows version (not Mac).

[liorean]

Filters are Microsoft proprietary and use DirectX, so they are only available in iew. Many of them require ie5.5w or ie6w to run at all. No other browser, not even iem, supports them, and they are not likely to appear in the CSS specs. In fact, if you have Win9x but not DirectX installed, not even iew supports them.

[pardicity3]

I don't even like the filters anyway. They look really cool, and I would really like them except for the fact that they seem to slow things down on my computer. Just having one div have a drop shadow slowed down any hover effect and also hampered my ability to highlight text on my page...I suppose this has to do with the use of directX and the fact that my computer isn't the best out there :).

Anyone else experienced this slow down?

[whackaxe]

i find filters look tacky and are a pain. they also lag the hell out of my 400mhz :(

[zoobie]

Yep..I'm noticing a slowdown when something is set to 100%. I'm sniffing for IE...with else getting an image of the same. I wonder why the css doesn't implement these text styles? They seem popular...Maybe the slowdown/DirectX is why. :D

[liorean]

There is a text-shadow property in [CSS2], but it never got implemeneted in any browser. Probably because it takes too much effort from the rendering engine's side. Using DirectX as iew does is cheap, because the rendering engine isn't involved in the actual process or rendering, only in telling it what to do. This is something that OpenGL should be able to do too, so I don't understand why they aren't in iem or msn for mac.

[WA]

The filters in IE5.5+ are more efficient, though require a different syntax than the regular IE4+ filters (which work in IE5.5+ as well).

IE5.5 filters are prefixed with "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft", for example:

style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Pixelate(MaxSquare=15,Duration=1)"

[cg9com]

Originally posted by pardicity3
Just having one div have a drop shadow slowed down any hover effect and also hampered my ability to highlight text on my page ... Anyone else experienced this slow down?
You can just make dropshadows with 2 divisions and a little non-proprietary CSS.
Yes, I've experienced slowdown before ...