Peter,

You've done great work so far - stick with it!

I know the feeling of frustration with this sort of stuff, but believe me it does get 
a bit easier with each site you build. What also happens is that maintenance on these 
sites becomes very easy as well.

Did my previous post regarding Mac IE 5 needing widths for floats and the issue that 
the "voice-family" hack may be hiding the widths for some floats from Mac IE 5 help at 
all?

Also, try sending a different stylesheet to Mac IE 5:

@import 'nonmac.css';   /* for everyone but mac ie 5 */
@im\port "mac.css";     /* for mac ie5 */

In the short term, if you need to get the project finished quickly, this may now be a 
viable option (i know it's a hack...). This way you can keep your voice family hacks 
within the non-mac CSS, and remove it from the Mac CSS. If you have time at a later 
stage, you can go back and try to minimise the amount of hacks in the non-mac CSS, so 
that it the CSS works cross platform.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

David McDonald
Web Designer
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.davidmcdonald.org

ICQ:11814164

----- Original Message -----
From: Universal Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:29 am
Subject: Re: [WSG] stumped by these ones

> 
> I'm beginning to flirt with the concept of despair - it seems 
> everytime I fix something in one browser it causes a problem in 
> another browser! I know there's a learning curve with this stuff 
> but 
> this is getting ridiculous.
> 
> So far this site has taken me double the time it would take to do 
> a 
> normal site, all for the pleasure of simplifying the code and 
> giving 
> advantages to the client that, to be totally honest, they couldn't 
> care a tinker's cuss about.
> 
> If someone has the time and the inclination please check this out 
> for 
> me and let me know what's going on. After redoing the divs for the 
> index page, it's now working for Mac IE5.2 and broken in Win IE6. 
> ARGH!
> 
> http://www.universalhead.com/clients/jands/
> http://universalhead.com/clients/jands/css/jands.css
> 
> Much appreciated - save from writing off this whole bloody css 
> business as unprofitable!
> Peter
> -- 
> 
> 
> peter gifford
> 
> universal head
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> 
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