http://www.alistapart.com/articles/progressiveenhancementwithcss/

On Dec 29, 8:37 am, John Ivanoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Box models
>
> here's a handy IE toolbar
> ----------------------------------------------
> Internet Explorer Developer 
> Toolbarhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=E59C3964-672...
>
> I don't consider myself a guru.
> In looking at your CSS there could be a lot of cleaning up done.
> Example. you declare font-family in many places.
> You could make a "main.css" and  do
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> body {
>         font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>         font-size: medium;}
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That way your fonts are the same and since you're declaring it once
> less to download.
> You could go further and make a "type_001.css" and just declare all
> your typography in it.
> When you want to change you font change the file to say "type_002.css"
> that way the cached css won't be pulled and you wonder why the type
> hasn't changed.
>
> You could do the same for:
> reset (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/)
> layout (positioning)
> style (colors and other eye candy)
>
> my 2 cents
>
> John
>
> On Dec 29, 4:01 am, Fernando Perez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > MaD wrote:
> > > personallly i use
> > > transparent borders instead of padding/margin, when i encounter such a
> > > problem.
>
> > That's an excellent piece of advice, and it is what I also use, but it
> > doesn't work all the time if there is a special background. Another
> > problem are floating elements, try switching them from left to right and
> > switch the order they appear in the html, sometimes it will avoid IE
> > adding a double margin.
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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