One other thing... Have you not used this method yourself for any particular reason, other than the opportunity just didn't present itself? Just curious.
ByteDreams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mordechai Peller
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:01 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Why style to IE?
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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