Same for CSS; I remember when I played around with CSS3[1] many moons ago, and it just slayed my laptop browser at the time. A lot of people like to use CSS3 f

Same for CSS; I remember when I played around with CSS3[1] many moons ago, and it just slayed my laptop browser at the time. A lot of people like to use CSS3 for no reason, and it's actually a huge burden on some devices. And that's disregarding the backwards compatibility aspect altogether. Just as images and assets can be a pain for data plans and low bandwidth, "fanciness" can be a rendering bottleneck. [1]: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/beautiful-ui-styling-with-css3-text-shadow-box-shadow-and-border-radius/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/beautiful-ui-styling-with...