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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 04/24/06 17:19
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Travis Newbury wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> > Design for other browsers first, then possibly add some fixes for
> > the IE bugs. Make sure you are using a DOCTYPE that triggers
> > standard and not quirks mode.
>
> Why design for the minority and try to put fixes in for the majority?
Indeed. And all except one browser is currently aiming at
implementing the published interworking specifications; so if you
design for the specifications, you're designing for the majority of
browsers.
After that, there's just a minority of one browser-like object (maybe
in more than one of its versions, maybe in several of its fix levels)
to worry about.
> IE is still the most used browser there, so wouldn't it be prudent to
> make sure it works correctly in IE FIRST
No, it wouldn't, because IE isn't even a fixed target. It keeps
changing the specifications at which it's aiming. The other browsers
are correcting bugs in their implementation of the published
specifications. There's quite a difference there, whether you can see
it or not.
Designing for the web first, and then adjusting as necessary for IE,
still rates to bring the best results - even for IE. And this will
become even more true as IE7 appears, I'd say.
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