Ysgrifennodd David McGlone: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about techniques. > > What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every browser > and resolution is available. I'm running Kubuntu with Firefox and Opera > running on 1440x900 resolution and I also check on my laptop running Win XP > with IE V. 6.0. with the same 1440x900 resolution. > > It bugs me to no end when positioning something and it isn't exact in none of > the browsers, some a little off, some way off. >
Hi David, I develop under Linux using Quanta for straight html and Eclipse for PHP, using FF as my main browser. On my development box I check that everything is OK in FF, then I test in Konq and Opera and IE6 (using IEs4Linux). I also have XP running in a virtual machine, on which I use IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage). To get everything acceptable at this level, I only use hacks/browser-specific html comments that correct for IE, but that are ignored by all compliant browsers. When everything looks OK, I check it out on a couple of laptops I've got, and on a couple of netbooks. I don't have to worry about things like mobile phones (yet). I try to make sure that I can hit [Ctrl]+[+] at least 5 times before anything starts to downgrade significantly. If possible, I try to use only relative units (ems and percentages usually), possibly from a known start point (e.g. a base font size in pixels to which everything else is relative). Then I try to give the browser as much "wiggle room" as I can by specifying as few dimensions as I possibly can. I don't think I ever specify every width across any block, and I can't remember the last time I specified a height except for cells in tabular data (usually things like timetables). Having said all that, I also only tend to deal in relatively straightforward designs. I certainly don't have any designers on my back who want pixel-perfect respresentations of their creations. So I have things pretty easy, I think. I hope this is useful The replies you get from other people will certainly be more so. Oh! and I'm just reporting what I do. I'm not saying you should do the same. Cheers Peter ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
