Posted by Bone Ur on 11/22/07 08:05

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:43:03
GMT Shelly scribed:

>> Maybe someone here knows more about it. I just chalk it up to the
>> "brokenness" of ie.
>
> My experience is backend, so I am a php person. I know enough html
> and css to get by, but that is not my area of expertise. So, until
> now, I always used the most convenient browser which, in this case,
> was IE7.
>
> On this most recent job I have had to do a lot more with htnl and css
> (like this problem). I have had to make sure things work on FF and
> IE6. The more I get into it, the better FF looks as far as quality
> and more IE comparatively looks like a piece of crap. Even a litlle
> thing like looking at page source. On FF it is indented nicely and
> color coded. On IE it comes up in (ugh!) notepad. Then there is the
> developer tools plugin for FF. It is great. You can easily see the
> javascript and css files (and other stuff). (Fortunately, it
> impossible for it to see the php or asp code.) The only drawback to
> FF is that it takes longer for a first loading. I also didn't care
> enough for Opera or Netscape to consider changing. By contrast, I am
> about to set FF as my default browser.

Firefox is my default browser, and I like it best. It does have some flaws
- they all do - but for me, the "user experience" <grin> is the most
pleasing of the lot. Furthermore, get this. I tried ie7 a bit after it
came out. True, it supports "the standards" considerably better than does
ie6, but I still switched right back to 6 because of the other stuff they
"neglected" (-like the crappy toolbar, no ftp, and more minor but
irritating imperfections.) Between the two, I will and do stick with ie6.
Happily, Opera seems to be making key improvements with each update. It
still has a few operational quirks, but I think eventually it will be a
top-flight browser. On the down side, I doubt if any browser will _ever_
be perfect so we'll just have to keep on making hacks for inter-operational
accordance.

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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