Thanks for your comments, Rakesh. It's my understanding that if you're developing a new site, you can declare the appropriate DOCTYPE and use fairly generic CCS that will be interpreted "correctly" by IE5.5 and IE6. Or am I wrong? -- Dean Champeau Champeau Services 86 E Fox Point Drive, Appleton WI 54911 Phone 920/731-5474 Cell 920/915-2151 Fax 267/377-1002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.champeauservices.com
On Aug 11, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Rakesh Pai wrote: > Hey Dean, > > I read your mail with a smile, as it reminded me of the time about two > years ago when I shifted from table based design to CSS based design. > IMHO, you've made the right choice to shift to CSS design. You've > already started seeing the benefits, so I need not elaborate on that. > > About the box model problem. AFAIK, it is not just IE5, but also IE5.5 > and IE6 - quirks mode that suffer from the misinterpretation of the > CSS box model (List: Correct me if I'm wrong). So, I'd recommend you > leave the hacks in your code. Besides, using a good box model hack > will not affect any of the browsers that interpret the CSS correctly, > so there's no harm done. Also, since you are using divs for the > superfluous markup, you are not altering the semantics of the document > in any way, so you don't have a need to feel guilty about bad > semantics either, even though "divitis" are a bad idea. > > I know it doesn't feel too good to write bad code to support a bad > browser, but until things change we have to change ourselves to fit > in. > > -- > Rakesh Pai > Mumbai, India. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://piecesofrakesh.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
