[...] > I'm looking at my most recent screen BrowserCam captures. > In IE5.2 on MacOSX 10.4, the image caption moves to the right and displaces > the article text. I can't figure out why. > http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/captures/84.jpg
No one uses this browser anymore. It's not worth your debugging time. Might as well debug in Netscape 4. All of my stats sources show no usage for this browser. On the biggest site I have Google analytics for, there are no hits for this browser (and the level of detail shows a few hits for Camino, which is pretty esoteric). I'm pretty fanatic about cross-browser compatibility, and I have not supported this browser in years. Do you have any specific support requests for this browser? [....] . Of course IE ignored my max-width 85% for the article, so now I need > to go with one of the suggestions I remember David, Duncan and Alan came > up when I last asked about max-width: Use a conditional comment to call > separate style sheet for IE, or hack the CSS. > > Without provoking any irritation, am I correct in my impression that hacking > the style sheet is best option, and lack of CSS validation probably won't > present me with major problems? I'm assuming you mean IE6. In my opinion, unless your specific site has high IE6 users numbers, it's time to move IE6 to a basic level of support. By that, I mean, fix cut-off content and blown floats, and basic text formatting should work, but it's not worth any other fixes like PNG fixes and MS proprietary fixes (unless needed by 7 or 8). So just using a fixed width is fine. I mean, these people are probably on Windows XP with the anti-aliasing turned off, after that atrocity how bad is anything a mere CSS writer can do? This also means basic attribute selectors are now safe(ish) to use (IE7 is wonky). Lest you think I'm the only one advocating this, the new version of SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, does NOT support IE6. In case you haven't heard of it, it's a big enterprise level CMS from Microsoft. Thanks, Chad PS. Some people cite the ridiculously high number of IE6 users that NetMarketShare lists on their main page (11.52%). However, they admit on their site that they weight their China users higher, and just today I found a page that leaves China out, and the number is 5.92 percent, which is much closer to specific site numbers I've seen and StatCounter numbers. This also moves the total % of Internet Explorer to just a hair over 50%. http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpaf=-001%09101%09CN%0D&sample=42 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
