Re: FN-FORUM: CSS tutorials

date posted 12th March 2008 12:52


On 12 Mar 2008, at 14:01, Phillip Healey wrote:

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>> On 12 Mar 2008, at 13:26, Hal MacLean wrote:
>> but still no single standard for rendering pages to all web browsers.
>
>> I'd argue that the standards are set, but the browsers ignore them
>> (Well IE does...)
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> I read that IE8 will be 'allegedly' as good as FF is now, however
> you have
> to set-it to this mode. The default is IE7 mode (seems a bit
> pointless), and
> if i remember correctly you have to put some code in the webpage to
> tell IE8
> to work in this compliant format. Although i may be wrong on the
> last bit as
> im sure it could just read the HTML definitions any way


they changed the defaults...

it's now IE8 standards mode *unless* you add a metatag to ask it to
render in IE7 mode...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx

my tests with the beta show it to break several perfectly good CSS
layouts, I think it's reading a hack for height and not behaving the
way IE6 used to...

(these are old layouts pre IE7 and my current use of CC's)

I don't have great expectations...

;)