It's not a matter of "tuning" sites to "nonstandard" browsers. That is
not valid CSS. Period. In any browser. Anywhere. None.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Plessky) wrote:
> On Thursday 05 July 2001 15:14, Robert E. Boughner wrote:
> | Vadim Plessky wrote:
> | > It depends on browser and developers's wizdom.
> | > MS IE will assume 8px when page offer "margin-bottom: 8"
> | > It's real life: people forget to put measurement units in CSS
> | > definitions.
> |
> | Then maybe they should run their CSS thorough a validator to check that
> | they've done everything correctly.
>
> question is who will pay developer for it.
> Real life is that it's not cost effective to "tune" web site to non-standard
> browser(s)
> // Which Netscape 6/Mozilla is.
> Just look at recent reviews on this subject.
>
> |
> | > Or don't know that it is *required*, as neither MS IE nor Mozilla mombs
> | > on it.
> |
> | Mozilla is just ignoring the rule because its not up to the specification
> | which states that margin-bottom can take the values of "length | percentage
> | | auto" (According to Eric Meyer's CSS Pocket Reference by O'Reilly 2001)
> | and length is defined as a numerical value followed immediately by some
> | unit of measure. So according to the CSS1 specifications Mozilla is doing
> | the right thing on one could say that IE isn't.
>
> Well, let's see in one year if Mozilla is able to achive at least 5% of
> browser market.
> Than I would probably agree.
> But current "arrogance" of Mozilla browser (incl. ignoring real-life sites)
> doesn't allow to break out of current niche.
>
> BTWL I agree with you, it would be nice if all sites are CSS-compliant. But
> we live in real world, and it's not perfect.
