Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/24/06 16:14

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Why not make two CSS files, one for Gecko based browsers and one for MSIE,

1. because it's a bad idea.

2. because it's pointless. IE isn't _that_ bad. If you can hit the
standard then not only is FF happy, but even IE will get nearly
everything right, so long as you use a suitable doctype to get it into
standards-based rendering mode. One stylesheet will fit all.

The only issues I know of where you can't do this are for the default
treatment of lists (just set everything (margin & padding) explicitly
for both). Also IE still have some font-sizing issues.

> a little bit of javascript that selects the right CSS based on the user-agent
> string.

That's _MUCH_ worse.

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