Re: FN-FORUM: CSS popup problems with IE

date posted 29th October 2007 13:18


On 29 Oct 2007, at 13:49, dean wrote:

>
> Thanks for that Tony.
>
> Showing my ignorance now - which browser would you recommend as a
> 'standards
> aware browser'?

in order from most standards compliant to least I'd rank them:

Opera
Safari 3.0
Firefox
Internet Explorer 7


and only if you've declared a proper doctype.

IE6 is a pile of poo, and should only be used for testing and
tweaking, after you've developed your layout and got it working in one
of the above (most people use Firefox for all the developer tool add-
ons) developing in IE6 will give you the biggest coverage straight
off, but the biggest headache trying to get it to work in the other
browsers.

develop in a strict browser, using web standards and valid code and
you'll find far fewer things to do to get IE6 working.

further reading:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/full/

;o)