Daniel Gibson wrote: > or did you like writing a different version of > your websites for each browser?
I've never found that to be actually necessary. Worst problems I ever had as a developer were actually Firefox 2... while IE6 and 7 might have needed a few hacks, they could always do the job. Firefox 2 often left me hanging. I hated that piece of junk. Anyway, with IE6 (IE5 is before my time), the worst that I ever needed was a few isolated lines of javascript - which can be abstracted into reusable functions - and a few little bits of CSS, easily done with conditional comments. It's really very little work, more like 10% more than the 100% more implied by "different version [..] for each browser". Hell, I think I spend more time writing border-radius -moz-border-radius -webkit-border-radius and similar -browser- prefixes over and over again than I spent doing IE6 adjustments. That said, I am happy to see it mostly gone, even if it's replacements still suck in their own ways. > surprised that you and Nick seem to like these old versions of the IE. The real surprise is how much of HTML5 is just mimicing IE5's functions! It's a good decision, just an ironic one.
