Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?

[Mordechai Peller]

Collin Davis wrote:
The bashing of head against the proverbial brick wall comes from trying to make 
my standards-compliant sites work the same in FF/Opera/NN/Safari as they do in 
IE. I first make sure the sites look and perform the way I want in both MSIE 5 
and 6.  After that is successful, I then start testing in the other browsers.
And there's your mistake. As has been discussed many times on this list 
and elsewhere, it's much easier and faster to first code to standards 
and then correct for IE.

While I do know ECMA-262 (Javascript), I hate using it.
I don't know how well you do or do not know JavaScript, but I suspect 
that either you don't know JavaScript very well (a common occurrence), 
or don't like to program (do such people really exist?  ;-) ). I have 
found that the better I come to understand JavaScript, the more I like 
it; in many ways it is an interesting, powerful little, often 
misunderstood, language.[1]

Lest I be misunderstood (a seemingly common occurrence of late), I was 
only guessing to what I felt was a likely source for your comment. You 
are, of course, equally entitled to your own opinion as I am to mine, 
and no insult is intended.

[1] "JavaScript:The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language" by 
Douglas Crockford <http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html>

I can develop much quicker just using a pure markup+css approach, and have no 
need for scripting.
There's no need to do your own scripting (though that happens to be my 
preference). All you need to do is plug in Dean Edwards's IE7 
<http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/>. While I haven't used it myself, it's 
gotten good reviews.

I hope that makes my original post clearer.
 

I think you've made your point of view clearer.
In no way did I think Mordechai was suggesting an ignoring an IE, but was
asking why style to IE specifically, and I was just giving the rationale for
doing so.
 

Actually, what I was questioning is why we should limit ourselves to the 
CSS which IE understands natively when JavaScript can be such a good 
translator.
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