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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 01/01/07 18:14
warth33@hotmail.com wrote :
> Hello there
>
> I really dont know if this is the right place to ask this question.
> Anyway, I would like to hear the opinion of other users about a minor
> issue.
>
> Im developing a webpage. Its intended for high traffic. A popular
> concept. The page has been planned to be viewable in the same way in
> the most popular browsers, but only the most recent ones (IE >= 5.0,
IE5.x and IE6 can not be considered as recent browsers. IE6 was released
in fall 2001 and has many CSS bugs related to abs. positioning.
> Firefox >=1.0,
Firefox 1.0 can not be considered as the most recent release of Firefox.
> Opera (preferibly v 9.0), and maybe even on the mac
> plattform with latest safari and camino).
>
> So, given the requirements above: are there any disadvantages in making
> all the page completly bases on the css absolut positioning? Yes, the
> importnt part is if these browsers supports the technique. I think all
> of the browsers mentioned above do it.
>
No. IE 5.x and IE 6 have numerous bugs related to abs. positioning.
> But Im still wondering if it is really a good thing. Is it a bad habit?
> Waht do you think? Doing everything with absolute positioning is the
> ideal, given the page's nature, and maybe even the only way to do it.
It's difficult to answer you without any details, concrete, specifics
regarding the page itself. One thing that even IE7 has still not fixed
is easy, convenient text selection (using either mouse or keyboard) for
abs. positioned blocks. Personally, I feel abs. pos. is a safer choice
than floats because IE7 still has many bugs related to floats, more than
related to abs. pos. But then again, I have not seen your page... maybe
your webpage wouldn't need abs. positioning at all..
GΓ©rard
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