Plus, I don't think the vast majority of website owners are going to permit the charges for the kind of time this would take, so while it would be worthwhile to try on one's own site, it's probably not best to effect this across all your sites in progress.
Theresa On Mar 7, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Freelance Traveller wrote: > > This appears to be "trying to make the page appear 'the same' (or at > least very similar) in all browsers", while using the advanced > capabilities that might be available. Mr Clarke is suggesting > otherwise; an example in the book shows, for example, the serving of a > completely black-and-white-and grey page when viewed with IE6, but > full > color (and certain graphical accents are completely different) when > viewed with FireFox. > > I understand that one cannot expect to see THE SAME THING in all > browsers, as though the screen was a printed page; nevertheless, the > philosophy that I learned when I was first starting web design (and > the > use of CSS) was to try to avoid radical differences in the appearance > from browser to browser, or screen size to screen size. That's what > I've done with my website at http://www.freelancetraveller.com - but > it > appears that Mr Clarke disagrees with this philosophy, embracing its > opposite, and THAT is what I am questioning. > > Thank you; this does indeed appear to be quite useful - and tells me > that CSS3 is not ready for prime time, and probably should not yet be > used as I'd like to use it. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
