> > well i just had a hard nut. we had a beast of design with nested tables and > > it looked on different browser different. but when you keep it hard you can > > do just ONE page for all browsers, without any seperate one for each > > browser type. > >child's play !
Don't say! If you want to count in Mac-IE 4.5, you're in _serious_ trouble. It renders the tables as if the table renderer was based on a random number generator. Mac-IE 5.x ain't as broken as 4.5, though... ... not to mention that Mac-browsers prior IE 5 rendered fonts smaller than on the pc-side. IE 5 fixed this: it simulates the pc screen resolution (96 dpi) on Mac... (Dunno about Mac-Mozilla.) ... which, in turn, leads you into a situation, where you make four different versions of yer CSS's just to make the site work the same way on two major browser flavors in two OS's... ... and you need JavaScript for recognizing the browser. Too bad, that the JavaScript-support in Mac-IE ain't too compatible with the pc-version of IE (go figure)... ... and if your site contains some plug-in -driven content (like Flash shows), you probably want automatically check out, whether the visitor has the plug-in installed or not. Too bad you can't recognize plug-ins with JavaScript on pc-IE (after pc-IE version 5.5 or something like that): you have to use VBScript for that. But on the Mac-IE, there's no VBScript support whatsoever. You have to use JavaScript for plug-in recognition on Mac-IE. So, you're making two different scripts with two different scripting languages just for recognizing the plug-ins in _one_ browser brand. ... and note, that I haven't counted in Linux, yet. >five years ago I had to write a Java applet that behaved the same >in two versions of MSIE and two of Netscape. what a nightmare ! Wasn't Java supposed to be the universal coding language, or something? ;) ---> "Been there, done that" jab
