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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/01/05 20:44
cyber0ne wrote:
>> A CSS comment is: /* margin: -1.6em 0em 0em 2em; */
>> and not just: *margin: -1.6em 0em 0em 2em;
>> which means the browser is free to ignore your CSS.
>
> Ya, those aren't supposed to be comments, that's just a "trick" I'm
> using for the time being to support IE's broken CSS interpretation.
> After I'm done I'll be moving those ones to a different sheet entirely
> for IE users.
I've never seen an IE trick written quite like that.
How will you determine who of your visitors are IE users? Browser
sniffing is notoriously faulty.
> I just took out the cursor: hand tags on my local copy, though. I
> guess those were left there from something I was trying to implement
> some time ago. So, between those and the need for broken IE CSS, that
> takes care of the errors. As for the warnings, the reason I don't
> specify so many colors is that there's no need. The colors of parent
> elements "cascade" to their children.
They do cascade, but wouldn't you agree it is best to fix them?
I still don't see why you need special code for IE. Never did that for
any of my sites.
> I'd love to use Strict, except that I need to do something about my
> iframe(s) first. That's really the only thing standing in the way. As
> for the errors in my Transitional validation, those don't make sense to
> me. It says I'm closing a head tag that isn't open, but it is open.
> And it doesn't allow a body tag?
>
> I'll change the font size to 1em, sure. It just seems kind of big to
> me, anyone else?
How about resetting your own default size?
> It seems like so many other sites I see use slightly
> smaller fonts like mine and it just makes them more readable. At 1em I
> couldn't imagine reading that thing on an 800x600 display.
Well, I had to increase it about 15% to read it. Perhaps my old eyes
aren't as good as yours.
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-bts
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