Well to each his own whether you agree with them or not standards are there for a reason. And personally, I believe that when building a new sites its way more efficient to build it towards the stands then go back and add the ie hacks. That's IMO way easier then making it for IE and then going back and trying to make it ok for compliant browsers.
Here in Colorado the speed limit is 75 and I guess thats what the state feels that the average car can be safely operated at but I drive a lexus and I feel like I can operate it just as safe at 95 but that doesnt mean i am right and get special privileges because of my opinion, I have to adhere to the standards as well. Not to mention you should now be building in xhtml which is not really friends with ie but maybe we'll get lucky and they will bring back the "blink" tag but this time it will mean that by the time you see it blink it will have installed some spyware and sent you a bill to remove it. ;) ---------------------------------------- From: Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Subject: Re: Anyone used these tools? >> I would also suggest that when the new site is being made that it is modeled for compliant browsers first then add the necessary tweaks for IE, seems to make things a lot easier Depends... Personally, I'm using an MSIE emulator for FF. (see http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/ieemu/ ) MSIE has very convenient features missing in the standard. Thanks to __defineSetter__ and __defineGetter__ methods, one can define new properties in Mozilla equvalent to the MSIE properties. Sticking to the standard is very nice, in theory, the problem is when the standard is dumb, you restrict yourself to dumb functionalities. Just an example, the width, top, left etc. properties contain strings (ie. "100px"), not really convenient for calculations in a program. MSIE has added the pixelWidth, pixelTop, pixelLeft etc properties, that contain integer values that you don't have to parse. For instance the following declaration in Mozilla creates a pixelWidth property in Mozilla. You don't even have to test for the browser in the code. CSSStyleDeclaration.prototype.__defineGetter__("pixelWidth", function() { return parseInt(this.width) || 0; }); -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:4:198471 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
