Or you could look at it the other way around and say that this demo works for ~85% of the web already.

For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title of "Browser with the single largest piece of marketshare for vendor/version combo" with 30.5% as of Jan 2012. It works dandy in there. So yeah, it works just fine with the most common browser out there.

IE8 was released nearly three years ago. By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.

> For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title...

I was under the impression that Chrome auto-updates, and hence Chrome 16 is really all the "Current stable release" versions of Chrome.

So might as well compare it to IE9 and IE8 combined.

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

> By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions.

I was also under the impression that Chrome got rid of meaningful "major" releases some time ago in favor of non-meaningful "major" releases.

"Google Chrome's Version Number Is Meaningless"

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers...

> Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.

Getting some text to align on a website for a significant browser segment is not ridiculous to me at all.

It may be the most used single browser version, but I'd put in the 25±10% range of visitors so it is not used by a majority of users.

That said, it couldn't be used on a general purpose web site without at least some fallbacks.