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Another use of small caps is specified by some style guides, mainly USA, for initialisms such as FM, NATO, BC, BCE, AD, CE, AM, PM. But apart from am and pm those are all usually typed in upper-case in the source, so not sure that CSS small-caps is useful?
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If I have something like BCE that would look terrible as 'bce', then I use a font with 'c2sc'. Then if it is unsupported in an ereader it just appears as normal capitals (as on a Kindle, which doesn't even support ligatures), whereas AM and PM, though preferably small caps, are perfectly acceptable as am and pm and so you can then use 'smcp' in the same versatile font, since it would be better as lowercase than full caps. The CSS for c2sc and smcp are supported in things like Lithium and PocketBook readers.