Mignon wrote: >For those of you who monitor browser compatibility, could you post your
>minimum requirements, ie Netscape 4.77 IE (whatever); either in general >or specifically. Realizing different company's may have different >requirements, of course. Tim: My answers are similar to David's. I handle our intranet, extranet and public websites. Intranet and extranet are restricted to Win/IE5.5+, so that's not a problem. For website development, I check operation in IE4, IE5, IE5.5, IE6, NN4.73, NN6.2, NN7, Opera 5, Opera 6, Phoenix and Mozilla, all on Windows platforms. I don't have access to Macs, but our logs show that very few Macs actually visit and I have a friend who checks it once in awhile with his MacHine. Our public website is targeted at corporate counsel, not the general public, and one of our largest clients has a corporate NN4.73 browser base, so I'm restricted to "must be the same in all browsers" - i.e., I can't be slack for NN4.73, it *must* match rendering in IE versions. Thus I'm still doing most of my positioning with tables. I have a couple of absolutely-positioned divs that work but only because I tweaked the heck out of them. Had a lot of trouble flowing text around a right-hand menu in Netscape. David wrote: Incidentally, one of things that CSS has allowed us to do is to present content to the browser ahead of less important stuff. As an example, you can send the main (right-hand) div with the real meat in it first, and then the menu that sits to the left of it. This can help with some search engines' tools and for text-based browsers. Few developers seem to have realized this. Tim: I'm aware of this, and hope to eventually take advantage of it. Right now I've got a fairly extensive lefthand menu that pumps out a lot of code before even getting to the page's content; while that hasn't seemed to hurt Googlebot, I think moving the content up front would probably improve placement some. Another thing I simply must do is replace some of my <div> tags with <h1> and <h2> tags where I use them for paragraph titles...at the moment I don't use any <hx> tags. Tweak, tweak, tweak...there's always something to improve. Tim ___________________________ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
