Paul Novitski wrote:
At 05:00 PM 9/23/2004, Tony Aslett wrote:
I created a list of CSS properties and browsers that support them http://www.csscreator.com/attributes/
Excellent work, Tony. Are you storing this in an SQL database?
Thanks Paul, Yes it's stored in a MySQL database.
I'd like to see some other layers of information added to a database such as yours. For instance, in addition to generalizing None, Part, or Full support of a property by various browsers, I'd also like to specify exactly how they differ, since all browsers that "support" a particular feature may not do so in the same way.
There are also quirks that don't quite come in the category of "support" but are critical nonetheless, such as the way IE requires there to be a background-color in order to render certain elements properly.
Comments were meant to take care of browser quirks, so far there is only a couple of properties that have had comments added.
Hopefully over time more will be added.
Other quirks, such as IE's maverick box model, would be difficult to categorize in a listing of properties but could probably be referenced under such properties as margin & padding.
Again comments should be able to take care of that.
There are certain phenomena that occur when several properties and elements interact, and it would be great to be able to find out what the database knows about, say, a UL nested inside a DIV when its LIs have float: left.
Cross referencing properties would be possible but not on the database in it's current form. It really wasn't in my initial design to be able to cross reference properties and it would increase the complexity quite a lot.
Onward~
Paul
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