On 9 Oct 98, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> Do you have any urls that discuss/list the "irritating exceptions"? Any
> insight from experience that you wouldn't mind passing on?
The best CSS resource I've found is at WebReview:
http://style.webreview.com/#charts
The above URL will take you straight to the "Browser Compatibility Charts",
a listing of the CSS properties that NS and MSIE do support, don't
support, or erratically support. This is most useful, because there is little
rhyme or reason to which specific properties work reliably, especially in
Netscape.
Worse, sometimes a property works in the Win version of a browser but
not the Mac version, or vice versa. Other times a property works in one
part of a page but not another. Quirky to say the least. Generally, MSIE
does a better job of handling CSS than Netscape does, though it's far from
flawless either.
(All of this is squarely attributable to sloppiness on the part of Netscape
and Microsoft -- it seems almost a deliberate sabotaging of the spec,
really. Why else would a browser support, say, a double-line border
around a box, but not an equally correct dashed one? Or let you fine-
tune right and left margins, but not top and bottom ones? The list goes
on.)
Anyway... I hope they get it right next time 'round, because stylesheets
address *numerous* limitations inherent in previous HTML specs. CSS-P
in particular (the "positioning" part of CSS) should in time eliminate the
need for frames, insanely elaborate tables and other kludges now used to
position content where we want it.
As for using them right now: the main problem of course is that pre-4.x
browsers ignore CSS, meaning that many of the valuable typographical
and positioning controls you can set are invisible to older browsers. For
now I find that a hybrid approach works OK: use a few CSS tricks that will
make pages more attractive on 4.x browsers, but won't have any negative
effect on earlier ones.
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