Hi folks, bit of philosophy & CSS for y'all.
A recent project faced a series of late-noticed serious IE6 hasLayout bugs,
and got the team in a panicked discussion in which IE6 bug-fixing best
practice got discussed. I ended up re-reading Ingo Chao's excellent article
'On having layout' http://www.
1. Could it be argued that *any* layout (necessitating complex
absolute/relative positioning, overflows, nested lists, etc),
carefully built with a thorough knowledge of the Trident box model
in mind can avoid having to artificially trigger hasLayout?
As co-author of that article and based o
Hi Georg,
> Myself, I use any property/value that gets the job done, whenever I
> need
> to trigger hasLayout. Loss of "validity" because of proprietary IE CSS
> isn't more problematic than use of some "mos-", "webkit-" or "o-"
> proprietary CSS ... IMO.
I do not care much about CSS validation,
If having valid stylesheets is important, one could simply apply zoom
using javascript: object.style.zoom="1";
~C
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
> Hi Georg,
>
>> Myself, I use any property/value that gets the job done, whenever I
>> need
>> to trigger hasLayout. Loss of
On 03.12.2010 17:43, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
But I agree with you, I don't see this as "problematic".
Guess that's what it comes down to when choosing hasLayout triggers or
other hacks for old IE. I still prefer "the phony stylesheet for
IE/win"[1] solution that I have used for years for shov
On 12/3/10 10:24 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
1. Could it be argued that *any* layout...
You could argue that in conversation and on paper from here to
eternity but making it happen on a screen with anything short of a
very simplistic layout is a pipe-dream. And therein may lie an answe
On 2010/12/04 18:56 (GMT+0530) Chetan Crasta composed:
After reading your explanation I still don't think the huge amount of
non-semantic code is justified. Sure you're site might work perfectly
in Internet Explorer 3 running on Windows 95 with a Pentium 200 Mhz
and a 14.4 kbps modem, but does
On 2010/12/04 15:28 (GMT) Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) composed:
David Laakso wrote:
> PS It is not a list policy but bottom posting ... is appreciated.
By some : others prefer to read what the respondent has to say,
rather than having to wade through recycled material before
learni
Felix Miata wrote:
Feel free to play elsewhere if list policy bothers you so much you feel
unable to adhere to it.
List policy doesn't bother me at all. Rules are for the
guidance of the wise and the blind obedience of the foolish.
Philip Taylor
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