Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:28:03 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> >> > > I do enjoy your articles, Georg. Thanks :-) > Just one thing more -- visitors coming to your website via Google's > cache will see IE 6 in quirks

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-19 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:28:03 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Kathy Wheeler wrote: > >> [...] do you mean you *only* throw ie6, 5.5 and 5 into quirks mode? But * >> not* ie7, 8 or any other browser? And of so, what do you find the best way >> to do that please? >> > > How about this way... >

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kathy Wheeler wrote: > [...] do you mean you *only* throw ie6, 5.5 and 5 into quirks mode? > But *not* ie7, 8 or any other browser? And of so, what do you find > the best way to do that please? How about this way... regards Georg --

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-18 Thread Kathy Wheeler
> Michael Adams wrote: >> To bring it back on track - controlling pages using CSS; i use a well >> known technique which makes IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 behave very similar to >> each other. Throw them into quirks mode intentionally, After re-reading this a couple of times ... do you mean you *only*

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-18 Thread David Laakso
Michael Adams wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> >> > To bring it back on track - controlling pages using CSS; i use a well > known technique which makes IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 behave very similar to > each other. Throw them into quirks mode intentionally, then you only > need program for IE6 (unless yo

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:58:25 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Ryan Little @ Gusto to my mailbox: > > > > Not really sure how relevant browser statistic are regarding the > > practical application of CSS. Nevertheless, there was a very long > > thread > > last month, on somewhat related mat

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Arnold
Ryan, Be sure you are looking at the browser stats in the wider context of the site's purpose and audience reach. For my personal sites, I abandoned IE6 a year ago, but I get very few visitors. 20% of visitors to my personal site only account for a couple a day. On sites I build for clients who

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-17 Thread Nancy Johnson
A side note to IE6. I just bought my dad a brand new Dell mini computer and guess what, it came with IE6 installed! I was a bit perturbed at this... Nancy On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Ryan Little @ Gusto wrote: >> >> Not really sure how relevant browser statistic are regarding the >> practi

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread Ryan Little @ Gusto
> > Not really sure how relevant browser statistic are regarding the > practical application of CSS. Nevertheless, there was a very long > thread > last month, on somewhat related matters, that may help be of > interest to > you. It begins here: >

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread David Laakso
Ryan Little @ Gusto wrote: > My question to all of you is with Browser Statistics: > > Ryan > Welcome to the list! Not really sure how relevant browser statistic are regarding the practical application of CSS. Nevertheless, there was a very long thread last month, on somewhat related matters

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread Ryan Little @ Gusto
Thanks Ron and Dan, I should have thought of running my own stats to see where they were falling in but looking at your stats Ron I see generally the same thing... 50% of users are using ie 6 and up and 26% are using Fx. My stats come in fairly similar on several sites with Ie 5x almost n

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Koster
At 03:11 PM 2/16/2009 -0800, Dan Gayle wrote: >IIRC, those stats only come from visitors of the W3Schools website, >and thus are highly swayed toward web designers who are using FF and >away from IE. I would agree with that. My busiest site (Psymon) gets a couple of thousand unique visitors every

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread Dan Gayle
IIRC, those stats only come from visitors of the W3Schools website, and thus are highly swayed toward web designers who are using FF and away from IE. On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Ryan Little @ Gusto wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been lurking for the last few days watching the eb and flo. I >

[css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-16 Thread Ryan Little @ Gusto
Hi all, I have been lurking for the last few days watching the eb and flo. I am very impressed with some of the experts here that are giving up their time to help. On that regards first let me say thank you very much for your time, my first question is more of a interest I think. I have b