Using CSS for site layout is one sure fire way of making sure your sites look consistent across most browsers.. If you use DreamWeaver and have a bit of time to get your head around CSS layouts then create a new page using the CSS template and see how it hangs together - basically all done with DIV's. I dipped my toe in the water the other day, created my first CSS only site and was stunned when trying it in each browser that it looked IDENTICAL !!
Another by product of doing things this way was that when I tested the site using the W3C CSS and html validator it got a perfect score. Superb! As far as any JavaScript stuff goes, I agree with "ColdFusionDeveloper" (the man with no name) - Try it in a non-ie browser first then fiddle to get it working in that later. I love using document.all (saves using getElementByID) but it just ain't available in other mainline browsers. Search engines and accessibility tools such as screen readers for partially sighted users benefit from using CSS too as there's no masses of nested tables to confuse the issue. Martin Parry Macromedia Certified Developer http://www.BeetrootStreet.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Dave Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2005 12:42 To: CF-Talk Subject: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions I've been doing intranet work for a while now, where the only browser we had to support was the one that came installed on company PCs. Have recent IE's oddities pretty well dealt with, but looking at the wider world, I'm wondering how folks manage development for multiple browsers. I'm thinking about relatively small shops that don't have enormous resources devoted solely to QA. Specifically... - Do you serve different style sheets or pages depending on the browser and version? How many? - Are you coding to W3C standards? Which one(s)? How much does that actually help your pages be more universally compatible? - What's an accurate, up to date source of info on html, css, and js capabilities and quirks for a lot of different browsers and versions? - It doesn't appear that you can have multiple versions of IE installed on the same machine. If you have to support them, do you actually have separate machines whose only purpose is to be equipped with IE 4, 5, and 6, maybe even 3? How else can you test? - Do you have mac, linux and pc browser test machines? - For general public sites, what do you consider a reasonable list of browsers and versions that you need to support? Dave Merrill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193172 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
