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Posted by Bill on 04/21/06 18:01
Whupps, I guess I didn't make it clear what my goals are or what I'm seeing
now so I'll try it again. The original page was developed in IE 6 and had
all of it's margins and padding sized and positioned correctly. When
viewing in Opera/Nestcape/Mozilla a few of the margins and paddings were
off, not much but enough to make me want to 'fix' the problem for those
browsers. What I was considering doing was to use some kine of browser
detector to add in a second css sheet AFTER the original css link on the
page to cascade the 'fixes' for the other browsers into the page. When I
started looking into it it seemed that it might be easier and more correct
to write the code for a more complient browser and then add in the 'fixes'
for IE 6. As it sets now it's looking like I should focus on Opera or
Mozilla as the default browser and get it to look correct in them and then
add any fixes for IE 6.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Bill wrote:
>
> > course there are differences so I was looking into detecting different
> > browsers so I could add in css sheets to fix individual browser
problems.
>
> Trying to detect different browsers and serving up different stylesheets
is
> almost certainly more effort then it is worth.
>
> Usually you don't need to do more then write one stylesheet for everything
> and override certain parts of it in a second stylesheet loading inside
> conditional comments that restrict it to Internet Explorer.
>
> > Here's the kicker, should I be designing the default page for IE 6 or
> > something else?
>
> The general concensus (and my experience) seems to be that it is easier to
> write for Firefox (or possibly Opera, Safari or Konqueror) then make
> adjustments to deal with other browsers.
>
> > be better off getting as close to Complient as possible and adding fixes
> > for IE 6 but I'm not sure WHICH browser is the closest.
>
> The leading non-IE browsers have little to choose between them when it
comes
> to standards conformance.
>
> --
> David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
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