Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 06/08/06 20:17

Ed Mulroy wrote:
[snippage]
> I have been trying to arrange for my pages to present essentially the
> same across NS 7, IE 5.1, IE 6.* and Firefox.

It's not really necessary to attempt to achieve pixel-perfect design
across browsers, because the visitors will only ever visit with one
browser. Not like here among us developers and authors.

> Looking at my site statistics right now shows IE at 80.0%, Firefox at
> 14%, Opera 1.9% and Mozilla 1.5% (I take "Mozilla" to be Netscape).

I would take "Mozilla" to be Mozilla.

Your stats are pretty much what my sites see as well. However, I don't
worry about what browser they bring, because my sites work in any
browser, even those PDAs and cell phones and text browsers you
mentioned, without any extra work. Even in Opera. :-)

For example, this one is mine: http://countryrode.com/

Note that there are <table>s, but only where there is actual tabular
data, such as the vehicles for sale, the models available, the store
hours...

At least half of that site comes directly from a database. The Events
page is a table - in the database - but is not displayed with <table>.

> It might be worth only supporting only IE and Firefox (Opera users
> tend to be techies and should be used to handling compatibility
> problems).

Again, it is actually easier to design for *no* browser, rather than try
to design for one or two. I don't really know how to do that.

Notice also that the menu code comes after the content in the source,
thus letting the search engines see the page content first, rather than
wading through the menu first on each page.

>> <http://www.jindrak.com/>. :(
>
> I like the looks of that page. Very nice page.

...except tommy forgot to assign a background color to the pages, and I
see my ugly default purple. <g> You have to be careful because not
everyone will use white.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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