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Posted by Thomas Maier-Komor on 03/22/06 16:57
Chris Sharman wrote:
> Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>> Chris Sharman wrote:
>>> Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>>>> Any other idea concerning my problem? If not I am probably going to
>>>> cancel IE support, as it looks like a bug to me, how IE handles this
>>>> situation...
>>> Dumping 80-90% of potential visitors seems a fairly drastic own goal,
>>> even for a personal site.
>>>
>>
>> my visitors are >90% UNIX users that are interested in mbuffer. So IE
>> support is more or less just for completeness. But I am already having a
>> hard time getting the CSS right for IE. Selfhtml misses the details how
>> one calculates the margins and paddings for IE, it only has very short
>> examples without any further description.
>>
>>> How about using ie include comments to make your site framed (for ie
>>> only).
>>>
>>
>> I thought about this, but IFrames look awfully (I couldn't get rid of
>> the black frame). And normal frames can only be placed in rows and
>> columns. But doing it for IE like this might be an alternative, although
>> it sounds like doing all work double to me.
>>
>>> I don't much like frames, or ie, but ie comments are a neat & compliant
>>> solution.
>>>
>>
>> Could you point me to an example (not selfhtml) that goes a little bit
>> into the details of IE comments?
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp
> Google for internet explorer conditional comments.
>
> Basically
> <!--[if IE]>Do yourself a favour - get <em>Firefox</em>.<![endif]-->
>
> Note that this is a syntactically valid html comment, ignored by all
> well-behaved browsers, but actioned by ie. You can also specify
> different behaviour in different versions, in the unlikely event that
> something gets fixed.
>
> Unfortunately the syntax for including something in other browsers & not
> ie is not valid (unsurprisingly).
> <[if !IE]>Happy Days<![endif]>
>
> Chris
Thanks, I will try to do it with Iframes for IE.
Cheers,
Tom
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