On Oct 7, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Duckworth, Nigel wrote:
Since I do not put IE 6 into "quirks mode", this means that
I do need to use hacks to separate the box model IE 5 stuff
from the box model IE 6 "standards" stuff.
Don't you mean you "do" not "do not"? If IE6 is in stds mode as you
say,
wouldn't you have to use hacks to distinguish serving a std box
model to
IE6 from the IE5 box model?
No, I don't, and yes, that's right. Sorry for the convoluted way of
speaking. It was before my morning coffee.
Some people deliberately put IE 6 into quirks mode so that they can
hack all IE the same way. I do not put IE 6 into quirks mode, because
I believe it will be less work in the future if I create documents
now that allow browsers to be the best they can be -- makes it easier
to drop the baddies in the future. As a result, even though I'm using
the forking technique Thierry advocates to avoid hacks, I still need
hacks to separate the two IE box models.
In the end, I think I'm going to adopt the technique he espouses for
separate stylesheets for IE 5.x and IE 6. I think it's more hits for
the older browsers, but an easier future-compatibility path.
--
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http://www.bivia.com
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