Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/14/06 16:07

Peter wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> Travis Newbury wrote:
>>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>>> Many would say you have it backwards. Build and view in Firefox (or
>>>> other modern browser) first then check and tweak if required to fix for
>>>> IE...
>>> But since IE is STILL the most popular browser I think this way is
>>> backwards. Make it work in IE (what everyone uses) the tweek for the
>>> lesser used browsers.
>>>
>>> I am NOT saying IE is better, only used more.
>>>
>> Yeah, and if they finally 'fix' IE you get the pleasure of redoing your
>> site the standard as it should have done. BTW for which IE should you
>> code for?

> I have only coded simple web pages before, and they all look
> essentially identical in whatever browser you view them with.
>
> Could somebody explain what IE does diffrently? Where does it not
> include the standards?

Well with simple styling, IE does okay so you should not have too much
problems. In general IE usually flubs up margins & padding, especially
when floats are involved. And IE lack of selectors support means you
need to define more classes and ids and hard-code it into your markup.
Here is a good property comparison table that will get you started...

http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_css.php
Web Browser CSS Support

Unfortunately, many on the web are woefully obsolete not listing Firefox
or Opera and can be misleading.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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