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I have seen in the comments of Is quoting the value of url() really necessary? and CSS background-image - What is the correct usage? that Mac IE 5 does not support quotation marks inside the url() function.

Also PPK's CSS page does not mention the url() function at all: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html

So I would like to know what browser support is like for this function. What browsers recognise the value, which ones require what quotation marks, whitespace, and so on.

I realise that everything released in the past five years probably support all syntaxes. It's the older browsers I am thinking of.

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    IE5 Mac? It's ancient history, forget about it. Commented Sep 30, 2011 at 10:24
  • Well, everything released in the past 10 years, excluding IE 5.1 and 5.2 for Mac, supports the url() function. Commented Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14
  • @thirtydot: i am just curious Commented Oct 17, 2011 at 15:58

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Mac IE5? Serious? :) I think this browser is seriously outdated and not being used anymore :)

Anyhow, according to W3C, it's
body {background-image:url('paper.gif');}

And it works for all (older) browsers. For who are you developing if you need support for this kind of ancient browsers?

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According to W3C, it doesn't matter whether you use quotes as long as they match (i.e. not url('foo")).
Your answer, besides being wrong, doesn't attempt to answer the question I asked.
Kind of rude to give everyone a vote down who is not agreed with your way of thinking... IE5 is history, serious. Stop trying to get this old-timer back to live.
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I have never ever had any issues with background-image for any browser type.

Unless of course you are putting it as a div with no content and not specifying the width and hight of the element...

example usage of background/background-image

#body {background-image:url('mylovelybg.jpg');}

or the long hand (to allow for color and repeating factors

#body {background:url ('mylovelybg.jpg') repeat-x #fff;}
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I asked for browser compatibility, not a syntax example.
I clearly stated in my first line "I have never ever had any issues with background-image for any browser type. Unless of course you are putting it as a div with no content and not specifying the width and hight of the element..." So why the down vote? I was trying to give you more information that you orginally requested - I.E help out! Why the down vote?!

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