I have forced Quirks mode for certain browsers in the past, I became quite an involved approach.
My current goal is to use a robust xhtml/css layout and use a minium of hacks
I am inspired by the concept of a sequence of css hacks to deliver certain styles to certain browsers
www.stopdesign.com - and search for css hack. I have not yet had the time to read, lab test or in any way get indepth with the issues ideas put forward.
This is partly due to the utterly nonsensical notation used in some hacks.
My thoery is that in the past (old skool days) sites were lashed together relying on unstandard code which often branched in x number of directions this approach
held its own quarks and issues. Content was locked up in tables etc. Now my new skool approach is (or soon will be - its still being honed) is to lessen the number
of hacks use standard code and say to hell with bad browsers - I am still find numerous issues with it, annoyingly I had such a sweet method for producing table based layouts
fluid effiecent quick although site were a lot harder to maintain. The nu skool method means sites need a more progressive on going approach to design and maintenance is easy.
Also I would say that Stop Design is using a form of css slicing, the site is near perfection imo
>>SS
Terrence Wood wrote:
Does anyone on this list deliberately force IE6 into quirks mode?
I have seen this done on a couple sites (ok...one), where the site has a comment in the first line before the doctype ( = quirks mode ).the notion of doing this seems attractive at first glance because you can lump IE5, 5.5 and 6 together and develop for a single IE box-model.
Are there any other benefits/limitations of doing this?
cheers Terrence Wood.
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