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On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:25 +0000, Damian Watson wrote:
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> You wish you were back in 1994 eh Russ? With Netscape 1 and <blink> ... 
> the closest you can get to that now is the <bling> tag which gives 
> everything a nice shiny tint.

Now you know it's not good to tease Russ about HTML!  He'll probably
start using the tag now!

Seriously though... layout was a whole lot easier when HTML 3.2 was the
base!  All those tables...

The thing is, to code well for all browsers, you have to be able to
create a LOT of code.  And that is unfeasible for most sites, so I
generally just code for 2, and that's IE and Firefox.  However, I just
don't go in for coding for EVERYTHING under the sun, because it's just
not possible.

The main reason is where do you draw the line?  Should everyone upgrade
it if breaks? That's not fair. Should you code for all browsers (every
version)... well that's not really possible is it.  Where do you start
and stop?

If it works in IE and firefox, the rest will pretty much tow the line to
the majority of layout.

Simplicity is the key, and actually using DIVs (no tables at all) and
CSS is about the closest I've come to "simplicity" and "re-usability"
for cross-browser performance.

And since most clients use IE anyway, they almost never find out about
the layout issues.

Paul
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