On 11/16/07, Jörn Nettingsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jürgen Ragaller wrote: > > | svn-commit: Use display:table-cell instead of float:left for tabbed > > areas to avoid wrapping > > > > This now looks nice in firefox - but IE (6 and 7) ignore display:table-cell > > I'll do some investigation about how to avoid the wrapping in IE. > > > > BTW: IE6 still has way too big fonts for the authoring area (and the > > default publication) - the reason is the xml Prolog (let's ie 6 switch > > to quirks mode). > > > > What about removing the prolog as long as ie 6 is still around in > > relevant numbers? > > over my very dead corpse. > if a certain software vendor cannot be bothered to provide the most > trivial bugfixes and read a f"$§%ing spec, that's really not our > problem. anyone with half a brain can download and understand the > relevant standards documents, and if the world's largest pile of > software engineers can't be bothered, well, tough luck for their users.
That certain software vendor's buggy software is still rather popular (>80%?) Version 6 is still popular because version 7 is even more buggy. From the evidence, none of the company's programmers have half a brain, and few are able to read. If our project wants to be used for websites, we need to make certain our software works with that buggy non-standard web browser. > if anyone wants to provide a patch with an IE-specific conditional > comment, that's fine with me. clean code for the rest of us, and it's > plain to see it's an extra bugfix for IE. > Jörn Nettingsmeier Special CSS for Microsoft Internet Explorer is easy. The browser is so non-standard that equal signs are treated as colons. All browsers use the last setting found if the same property is repeated. Try something like: display: table-cell; display=block; float=left; HTH, solprovider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
