> At 03:42 PM 11/29/2007, DAVOUD TOHIDY wrote: > >However your layout is not stable. For the definition of layout > >stability please see my portfolio at : > > I think Davoud's response shows us why the answer to the question posed in > the subject is "virtually nothing." There are too many people using other > browsers, and unless we're going to be creating websites to work > specifically in Firefox, we're still going to have to work with the lowest > common denominator in the name of site, which has NEVER been Firefox, in > the name of "site stability." Most of the compromises I've made in my own > web design efforts have been to account for Internet Explorer's > inadequacies. Only once have I had to make a change because of a Firefox > problem, where I found a completely valid CSS construct that crashed the > Gecko rendering engine (I never revisited that construct, since there are > always people out there who don't keep their browsers up to date, so even > if the bug is fixed, I don't want to be crashing the browsers of people > who > don't bother keeping up to date). > > That the new Firefox can pass the acid stress test is really nice, but > since we're talking about a browser that has, depending on who you ask, > 5-15% of the browser market share, it really doesn't mean much to a web > developer that isn't willing to spite everyone who uses inferior rendering > engines. :)
Hey, you're preaching to the choir! http://www.phazm.com/notes/productivity/stop-the-hate-ie6-isnt-so-bad/ I understand your point, but I disagree that it changes virtually nothing. While a lot of the functionality is essentially proprietary until other browsers support it (and obsolete browsers die) FF3 still has some good enhancements that will spur other browsers into a bit more action (not to mention, I think FF users will upgrade to the latest much faster than IE users) Things like getElementsByClassName are still useful, because if you run it with a library that supports it, it will simply speed the script up (because it doesn't have to traverse the DOM to find all class names, it can go directly to them) - So it is backwards compatible. Yes, handlers for protocols like "validate:http://www.phazm.com/"; are going to be somewhat useless for some time to come, but at least you can do things like setting up mailto: to go to another service instead of the users default. For the most part, I am thinking that the enhancements made will at the very least get some more market share for FF, and more people off IE6, and hopefully get IE to adopt some standards. - Jon ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
