Yes, ordinarily I do develop in Firefox first, but because I was at her house and working on her computer, I had to make do with what I had. That happened to be IE/Mac, since her install of Safari was acting oddly and kept hanging up. *sigh*
Thanks for the code tips though. I'll have a play and see what I can do. Cheers, Seona. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Terrence Wood > Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 4:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this? > > > > Short anwser: try and use 2 hacks. > > I recommend developing for the best standards compliant browsers first: > Firefox, Opera, or Safari. > > This will ensure that your CSS is clean and valid and should work well > with future standards compliant browsers. > > Then I deal to/with IE/PC. I always use the * html hack at the end of my > stylesheet to deliver styles to these browsers (5, 5.5, 6), and if the > number of fixes get big enough I then put them into an external style > sheet and hide that from nonIE using conditional comments. > > Then on to IE/Mac, if I can get away with it I use the * html hack again > at the end of my stylesheet for this browser, checking the result > against my IE/PC stylesheet, but some people put styles for this browser > in another file and include it with a filter. > > Keep it as simple as possible and only hack browser which are 'dead' or > 'dumb'. > > so I recommend using only two hack if you can do it: > > * html {//stuff} for IE > > /* \*/ {//stuff}/* */ to hide rules from Mac IE > > > HTH > > Terrence Wood > > On 2004-12-01 6:08 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, > and one of > > the things I needed to do was to absolutely position each element of the > > navigation because she wanted to have them follow the shape of > the design. > > So far so good, and I put together a working template on her > Mac when I was > > there yesterday. I've since taken the files home so I can > continue working > > on them, looked at the template on my PC and found that all of the > > navigation is out of whack. :( > > > > I was thinking of creating a second stylesheet with a new set > of positioning > > rules that would be hidden from Mac browsers and hide the > current one from > > PC browsers (no need to make everyone download everything). So > is this a job > > for conditional comments? Or is there another way to do this? > Do I need to > > just use hacks to hide the extra rules, so that everyone downloads > > everything and only processes the relevant bits? Either way, > what would be > > the recommended syntax? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Seona. > > > > -- > "You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have > nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." > -Antoine de Saint-Exupery > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 26/11/2004 > __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Later for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.802 / Virus Database: 545 - Release Date: 26/11/2004
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