> the php code does a browser check and if IE it loads a very small > additional CSS bit to fix IE > This isn't a reliable way of doing things. Anybody can spoof the user agent HTTP header, and many people do.
Opera, whose CSS standards compliance is much better than IE6, pretends to be IE by default, so your browser check is going to have to test for the presence of "Opera" in the string to exclude it. Using Safari, I can enable a menu which lets me pretend to be one of a variety of browsers, including IE6, in such a way that the server cannot detect that I am using a browser that works properly. Result: if I go to (say) my bank, which demands IE6 but works fine with Safari, and I then visit your site without switching my user agent header back, I will see your design as totally broken. If you want to send some CSS to IE only, then use conditional comments [Ref. 1 (and numerous posts to this group)]. This is exactly the job they were designed for, and they are supported (indeed, encouraged) by Microsoft, so you can use them and relax. A server-side solution is broken by definition, and will haunt you from a maintenance perspective in years to come. Believe me, I've seen the consequences of that mistake, and you don't want to make it. [Ref. 1] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
