On 22 May 2010, at 2:42, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > I don't think the author tested these rules in IE lte 6, because as far as I > know these rules are *ignored* by IE.
Hello again all, After the great enthusiasm generated by my innocent idea of using the "universal ie6 stylesheet" for IE5 and IE5.5, and not for IE6 for which it is intended, I decided to do exactly what I had wanted to avoid... I set myself up a test machine with IE5 and 5.5. Yes, I did. And I can report back that the "universal ie6 stylesheet" IS NOT FOR IE5 AND 5.5. The resulting page (mine anyway) is worse, much worse, than no styling at all. If the user may think that something is wrong with his machine when he gets a totally unstyled page, then when he sees this one, he'll be *sure* there's something very wrong (maybe with the person responsible for the mess). He will hopefully decide to upgrade immediately (which may be a reason to use it after all), and if this is impossible, he will go back to pen and paper, abandoning the web and all its horrors. So the "universal ie6 stylesheet" goes to the trash. I think I'll do a custom minimal stylesheet for IE5, 5.5, and IE Mac at the very end of the development so I won't be tempted to add or remove anything just for those oldies. Topic closed... Thanks for setting me straight. Ellen ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
