Posted by David Dorward on 04/21/06 17:41

Bill wrote:

> course there are differences so I was looking into detecting different
> browsers so I could add in css sheets to fix individual browser problems.

Trying to detect different browsers and serving up different stylesheets is
almost certainly more effort then it is worth.

Usually you don't need to do more then write one stylesheet for everything
and override certain parts of it in a second stylesheet loading inside
conditional comments that restrict it to Internet Explorer.

> Here's the kicker, should I be designing the default page for IE 6 or
> something else?

The general concensus (and my experience) seems to be that it is easier to
write for Firefox (or possibly Opera, Safari or Konqueror) then make
adjustments to deal with other browsers.

> be better off getting as close to Complient as possible and adding fixes
> for IE 6 but I'm not sure WHICH browser is the closest.

The leading non-IE browsers have little to choose between them when it comes
to standards conformance.

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