On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:00:06AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 08:11, Kevin Mark wrote: > > So contrary to popular belief, we should not design web pages to be > > IE compliant, since they do not meet OPEN standards. Is this > > surprising? > > Well, the problem is, the opposite. When designing OPEN standard > compliant webpages, which are not IE compatible. > > When a situation like this happens, you (the web designer) have got tree > choices: > > 1) forget the use of technology (CSS in this case) > 2) forget Open Standard compliance > 3) forget that the page sucks on 90% of people > > I myself, chose number 3, because I had to use CSS, and I couldn't > ignore W3C compliance. Others, may not do so.
No, the right thing to do is to know about the few bits of CSS that you can't reliably use for cross-browser compatibility, and don't use them. "Eric Meyer on CSS" is an excellent book that goes into these issues. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
