Jack Saat said: > Please help me out. Hi Jack,
It is quite common to end up with designs that work in one browser but not the other when starting out developing with web standards. I haven't got access to your page with FF at the moment so I can't often any advice on the specific problems you may have with your page. However, I would like to offer some advice on how to approach developing with web standards - it may save a lot of headaches. 1. Work up your design in a standards compliant browser first (i.e. not IE). Any browser released in the last couple of years will be fine. I personally use FF because of it's extension archecture (web developers toolbar is indespensible), with the occasional check in Opera, and Safari as I go along. This ensures my design works in the 3 major (standards compliant) rendering engines: Moz/Ghecko, Opera and Webkit/KHTML. 2. 'Fix' the design for browsers that have patchy standards support but you must accomodate (i.e. IE6, IE5.5, and any others *if* you know they form part of your target audience). Personally, I don't create CSS for v4 browsers, NN<7, Opera<7. These browsers get raw html, or occasionally just a basic stylesheet with some color's but no positioning, or the CSS but no debugging (reason is these browsers are all optional installations and most people will upgrade them). I don't specifically support Mac IE5 unless the CSS required to support it is quick and easy to implement. 3. Keep hacks and workarounds together where possible. Some people suggest that you shouldn't use hacks, but I've found they can't really be avoided. I try to group any rendering fixes at the end of my CSS files - that way they are easy to find and edit and it ensures that the rest of my CSS is clean and compliant. I use the * html hack, or conditional comments to deliver CSS to IE. HTH kind regards Terrence Wood. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
