>>- Do you serve different style sheets or pages depending on the browser and
>>version? How many? Sometimes, you have to. Mozilla sticks closer to the standard and IE has some oddities for which you must find workarounds. >>- Are you coding to W3C standards? If you need some nice functionalities and powerfull client interface, I would say this is almost impossible: the W3C standards are just too dumb. Even Mozilla has added features identical or similar to those in MSIE and they are not in the standards. The problem with the W3C is that the documentation is even worse than the standards. At Mozilla.org, they claim they don't need documentation, because Mozilla strictly sticks to the standards and they refer to the W3C docs. First it is not true, because Mozilla has plenty of features not in the standards, including HTML editing functions compatible with MSIE, and this is not documented, secondly the W3C docs are simply unreadable, written in a completely abstrus meta language, with no example ever. I wish there was a standard about how to write documentation about standards,... hmmm there is probabily one, and that's why the W3C stinks so much ;-) >>Which one(s)? Ah ah, that's a damn good question. When you visit the W3C docs pages, there are always half a dozen of versions, drafts, proposal, etc. You never know which one is THE standard, nor you can know WHICH one Mozilla is so proud to stick to. >>How much does that actually >>help your pages be more universally compatible? If you stick to the standards, you'll probabily be more compatible, but with much more effort and less power. >>- What's an accurate, up to date source of info on html, css, and js >>capabilities and quirks for a lot of different browsers and versions? Ok, have a look at the "IE emulator for Mozilla": http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/ieemu/ I know I will make Moz fans mad, but Mozilla is missing quite a few handy tools available in IE. However it has facilities that allow to emulate them. Using this emulator, one can write IE code that will run on Mozilla as well, even the ubiquitous document.all collection. (not that I'm in favour od the use of it, but it could save lots of hours of work just making old scripts compatible). - do you actually have separate machines whose only purpose is to be equipped with IE 4, 5, and 6, maybe even 3? You can forget about anything below 5.5: according to http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm IE 4 is less than 1%, and IE3 is not even listed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193181 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
