Personally I don't find the differences all that big of a deal. In many cases the "bad" behavior is not even noticeable by the average visitor unless you absolutely insist on pixel perfect display cross all browsers and platforms, yeah right.
A 3px jog just isn't that big of a deal to me. Then again I do not expect my sites to look identical just attractive and to degrade gracefully. As far as what to avoid. Don't use width 100% if you use any borders, margin or padding on the outside of containers (aka divs or other block level elements) that's where you'll end up with horizontal scrollbars in some cases with the different box models. For common 2 and 3 column layouts take a look at http://positioniseverything.net, www.alistapart.com or one of the css layout generators. Depending on the layout you want you can always use a hybrid layout using the methods in Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards" or Eric Meyer's "Eric Meyer on CSS". Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: jmwcruiser Thanks Cheryl. I will take at look at pinespc. Perhaps it is time for me to leave tables behind. How limiting do you find IE support of CSS-P? I've read the articles -- which just gave ammunition to my avoidance of CSS-P--that explain how to work around the limitation of IE 5 and 6. Do you find this to be a problem? Or have you just developed a procedure that allows you to live with the situation. I understand the biggest issue is with specifying *width*. Are there other potholes to avoid? Or in practice is the IE5/6 noncompliance not so much of an issue? ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. 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] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
