On Friday 30 January 2009 9:01:39 am Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > You're correct. I make changes and look at it with firefox. I'm aware > > it probably will not look the same in different versions of IE, > > Opera, etc, but I haven't figured out what to do to fix this. What > > would you recommend? > > Apart from with IE6-7-8, don't mind browser _versions_ too much. There > are too many... > > Unless you experiment heavily with CSS3 and/or proprietary CSS, the > latest versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari etc. will pretty much handle > all reasonably well thought-out and standards compliant layouts/designs > the same. > The major browsers are available on win-XP and up for testing, and if > you run on another OS you still can get hold of most. Always good to see > for yourself what's going on. > > What you _should_ do is to stress-test your layouts and final > designs/pages a bit in Firefox - since that's your preference. At least > 200% font resizing (not page zooming) usually reveals most weaknesses in > a layout/design/finished page, and is a good starting-point for checking > design quality and basic accessibility - see: WCAG2 standard. > > > All those other declarations on the page are just junk. I started > > experimenting with an old CSS file from 2003. It's been years, but > > that is what happens when one has kids. LOL > > Maybe better to start with a clean sheet then, and catch up on CSS 2.1 > now that you have a chance :-) > > Tip: avoid absolute positioning for major elements (containers) in a > page, and don't fix vertical dimensions on them.
Thanks Georg, You've been a great help! Your responses have also helped me keep my confidence. -- David M. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
