umm, I surely wouldn't put it that way, check out IE's box model and have a barf bag ready ;) Sounds like you are just used to codeing towards an inferior browser once you get going on following the standards you will see how the light really shines! If I recall correctly IE doesn't even reconize XHTML correctly yet which can be a huge PITA and it reverts to quirks mode. Standards are there for a reason, www.w3c.org, should have lots of info for you about it. You THINK IE is ok till you start readying up on it and then you realize it's a pile of ..... That's why there are so many hacks for it and I think you are just used to how INCORRECTLY ie has handled them and are used to it.
Just build it to look good in firefox then make a few tweaks for ie and it should be fine but if you build it for ie then yeah it's gunna be a mess on all the others, build it for ie then look at it on safari, lol, now thats a mess!! ---------------------------------------- From: "Matthew Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:03 PM To: CF-Community <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Subject: RE: CSS "IE quirks" Not to start an IE-Firefox war, but what I've noticed is that in IE, when I want to move something to a place using CSS, it generally takes only the code that I expect it to. In Firefox, I notice a lot of the time, that the code that I would expect it to take to do a desired action is not what it does at all, but something I don't expect it to do. I had the same experience with Javascript as well, between Netscape and IE. However, I'm told that IE does not conform to standards (not that I've ever found out how myself). Would I be correct in saying that MS (re)designs these standards to make them easier and more intuitive to use, and this causes the mess? What good are standards if they aren't easy to use? Why not make the future standards based on the best available set? I just don't get all of this... people bitch so much about Microsoft, and there are some good reasons, but isn't making life easier a good thing? - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:22 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: CSS Ha! Some days I've really felt the same way. I consider myself fairly well versed in CSS but I still can't always make it do what I want it to. And if you spend a bit of time reading a lot of the CSS stuff out there, the really advanced CSS folks will generally agree. They keep longing for CSS3 and arguing about how something should be implemented in that. Like CSS3 is ever going to see the light of day. Especially when tools like Dreamweaver still give precedence to IE quirks. -Kevin On 4/14/05, Matthew Small wrote: > I've written a haiku about this: > > CSS on web > > Crazy fools have made you up > > Death for programmers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:154089 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
