On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > > It works heavily toward w3c standard compliant code (and if you > > > look at the top 100 sites, I doubt 10% of them are 100% standards > > > compliant, and if you have 100% standards compliant, you'll be > > > excluding over 90% of the browser users on the internet). > > > > No you wouldn't, because all the browsers out can decently render a > > 100% compliant page. I've yet to find a browser that can't. > > I'm afraid this is not the case Paul. IE is not always able to render > fully compliant pages, in a decent way.
I still agree with Paul. Just because IE isn't able to render CSS correctly it does not mean that just by using CSS you are excluding "90% of the browser users on the internet." There are a number of things you can do to make sure your pages are both compliant and usable: 1) Read up on CSS browser support: http://www.css-stuff.com/browser_bugs.html http://devedge.netscape.com/library/xref/2003/css-support/css1/mastergrid.html 2) Look at *your* traffic. I doubt that most people on this list are concerned with The Whole Internet. Sure thecounter.com suggests that virtually everyone uses IE: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/browser.php But dig a little deeper and you'll start seeing a different picture. Webreference.com, a "techie" site already shows a drop in IE numbers compared to The Whole Internet: http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html I personally would rather write to the standards instead of changing things every few weeks as new versions of buggy browsers are released. emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
