My 2 cents:
I've been coding CSS layouts since 2003. I've probably laid out several
hundred sites at this point.
Today, I always code on FF first (yes for the tools). Yes, Opera
renders a little more accurately. Once you learn little CSS tricks to
stabilize floated items, their containers etc your pages should look
good in Opera and Safari first run when coded on FF.
Once you learn the troublespots in IE (widths with padding, dealing with
heights) they're easy to spot and fix. Many of the issues can be solved
by one extra element in your html (or one less depending).
Best way to troubleshoot if you haven't dealt with all the bugs is to
remove stuff from your page until you can isolate your trouble spot.
Joseph R. B. Taylor
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huzairy rezuan wrote:
I think that I've read about this in Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS
book. Maybe it's under the Progressive Enhancement approach.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi David,
I wouldnt say that I code for Firefox, more that I code in
immaculate standards compliant code and that it seems to work best
in Firefox, Safari and Opera ;)
You are right though - make for standard complient browsers and
then use conditional statements for IE. Most of the time these are
to fix very minimal spacing issues.
This isnt much but this article on sitepoint defines that firefox
is the browser for web developers:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/29/would-you-switch-to-ie8/
Darren Lovelock
Munkyonline.co.uk <http://Munkyonline.co.uk>
Quoting David McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
Hi,
For a while now, I've been operating on the principle "Code for
Firefox, hack for IE".
That is, writing CSS for the most standards-compliant browser,
and then
making adjustments for non-standard behaviour.
I said this in a meeting last week to argue a point and my
boss said
"who says?".
I could have said "me", but maybe that's not a good enough answer.
Somewhere some years ago I read this, or heard someone at a
conference
or something and it got stuck in my head.
Is this the way anyone works?
Is it the best way to work?
Does anyone know where I got this idea from? Book? Blog? A bit of
googling this afternoon turned up not very much.
Thanks,
David
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