Re: FN-FORUM: CSS popup problems with IE

date posted 29th October 2007 14:56

Cheers, Tony!

Dean


> From: Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Date: 29 Oct 2007 14:07:04 -0000
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: CSS popup problems with IE
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> On 29 Oct 2007, at 13:49, dean wrote:
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>>
>> 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)
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