Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS

date posted 13th March 2008 16:01


On 13 Mar 2008, at 17:04, John Deaville wrote:

> You'll appreciate that this is pretty difficult for me to do as I =20
> am on a
> Mac, and I cannot get anything above IE5
>

You could use Parallels to have Windows in your Mac, ad use multiple =20
IE to have several versions of IE running on your windows installation:
- http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
- http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

> First off - I am not principally a web designer, I want to design =20
> something
> that is aesthetically compatable with the work I am doing, I have read
> various bits of source code and articles regarding css - why does =20
> it not
> work, also I keep hearing that internet explorer is basically =20
> rubbish at
> displaying css, so I didn=B9t really expect it to work, is this not =
true
>
> Can anyone point me to some relevant articles then please ...

A Wikipedia article in the most common bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/=20
wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug

A List Apart article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype/

Conditional comments: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/=20
ms537512.aspx

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HTH

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Nicolas Borda
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