Deb, I'm in total agreement with Haoshiro. Hacks are just that - hacks. Its like using a screwdriver to hammer in a nail. A lot of them didn't work for me either.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Haoshiro Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:05 PM To: 4css!!!! Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Hacks, to use them, or not Deb, Personally I would recommend *against* using hacks at all. Conditional Comments and behaviors should be able to get you past the really problematic IE issues. In my experience many of the "compatibility issues" across browsers is caused by the lack of complete CSS standards support in current browsers. In these cases many layout issues can actually be solved by using a table or two in your layout. Trying to force CSS standards on browsers that were not originally designed with them as a high priority using hacks is a worse practice, in my opinion, then using a few layout tables. This is generally regarded as a *bad* thing because "tables are for tabular data only" but the fact of the matter remains that they do *work* and are generally rendered close to the same way across browsers common browsers. Conditional Comments: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp Behaviors: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dhtmltechco l/dndhtml/IE5behave.asp Regards, Haoshiro 4css!!!! wrote: >Ok, this is my next question in my learning quest. > >To use hacks or not to use hacks. > >There are so many of them out there that it is a bit confusing. And with so many to learn it gets a bit frustrating. > >How do you remember all of them? do you keep a cheat sheet near you? > >My mind is sort of boggled right now with so much reading etc.. So any links that could be provided, that really explain things good, would be so appreciated. > >4~CSS!!! aka Deb >http://directory.css-styling.com >http://fmsforum.debsplace.org >A site in progress: >http://debsplace.org > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
