Enterprises often wait a long time before upgrading browsers as part of their "Current Operating Environment" plans and protocols. What I have experienced over the years is that a new browser will be welcomed by the general community, but the IT departments of the (figurative) GE's, Citibank's, AT&T's etc. often take months to years to authorize an update. Large corporations have policy-driven updating for their computers instead of the typical "click here for updates" link. So in turn, we end up with a general update acceptance, with a few 800-pound Gorillas (with all the money) holding it back.
---------- Morgana, Regarding the main question, for general web sites, 2.1 seems to be the norm now. Erik Meyer's book "More Eric Meyer on CSS" is a great book to start. It's a few years old but the clarity is excellent and the lessons are very retainable and can be applied to many daily CSS tasks. "Stylin' with CSS" is a good book too, which does a simple, no-frills, to-the-point instruction on building a proper, CSS-driven accessible web site. The CSS Zen Garden book is a neat design book to have and shows interesting tricks people use, but can sometimes be impractical as the Zen Garden project only involves one page of content. Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm is a great book on ensuring the site is built not to break, and to be accessible to all. Alistapart.com is a fantastic site of a-list authors giving away their secrets. and dont forget positioniseverything.net which will explain why your CSS isn't displaying correctly on certain browsers and how to fix it (ironically the site looks better with the CSS turned off, but don't let that scare you--they really know what they're explaining on that site) Hope that helps, Court Chris Ovenden wrote: > On 11/29/06, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Chris Ovenden wrote: >> >>> unfortunately IE6 is likely to remain the majority >>> browser for several years yet :-( >>> >> Several years yet? IE7 is now a Microsoft recommended download, and >> virtually all PCs for sale post-January ship with Vista, and, >> inherently, IE7. The next couple of months will be very telling, but I >> reckon things may be about to change. >> >> A lot of arrogant developers(TM) I know are telling me I'm an idiot to >> still spend so much time spoon-feeding IE6, and argue that I should just >> tell my clients that they should be looking at things with IE7. Of >> course, I can't quite take this idea seriously. >> >> > > I really would like to ditch IE6 support, except as a > degraded-but--still-functional experience, but sadly the upgrade to > IE7 is not an option for most Windows users, as it only works on XP > SP2 - currently standing at about 23% of web users worldwide. (And of > these, how many are legitimate? IE7 also comes with the hated WGA > check.) I hope I'm wrong, though. > > >> http://www.stylespread.com >> > > Gonna check that out. Thanks! > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
