Ah! That'll be why I didn't archive it. I figure life's too short to be fretting about IE and non-IE capabilities. I figure while I have the say-so on the design aspect of a site, I'll just not use anything that doesn't work in all browsers. i.e. if it's IE only, it doesn't get done. The vast majority of things can be achieved in a number of ways, and if a design feature requires some proprietary or non-standard behaviour in the browser, then I'll go looking for ways to achieve the same thing, perhaps in a different way, but in a cross-browser standards compliant fashion.
Of course if your job is to code up the design handed to you by a designer, signed off by the client, then perhaps you don't have quite as much flexibility. But in general, unless a technique is widely supported, I don't bother to go into much detail with it. When the new version of CSS is released, I'll read about it, understand the issues, but won't bother learning much about it until there is a wide acceptance of it in the marketplace. There's enough going through my mind for me to learn about, without having to learn things I'm maybe going to use some time in the future, maybe not. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scott parsons Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table? you can but only in IE due to IE having some weirdness occuring in the way they layout the page. BUT if you style the columns using the IE method, and style the third td (td+td+td etc) which will be understood by most modern browsers you should be able to get the column styled for everybody. perhaps not the best way to go about things but it will work s ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
