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

date posted 13th March 2008 16:31


Hi nigel - thanks for the advice

Can I ask people then - if the primary objective is to get the website to
display properly - why use CSS at all, as it seems to be a complete pain in
the rear - at least with tables I know it is going to display correctly, th=
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reason I want to use css is I hope it may have an impact on my google ratin=
g

Most sites designed using css do not display correctly in IE 5 on my Mac
(including your own) - that=B9s not a criticism, by the way - it is just
stating that as far as I can see, I have tried to follow the 'rules' of css
positioning, and it works fine on my browser - I have mailed it to many
people all of which say it is fine - plus used this link

http://browsershots.org/http://www.photofixer.co.uk/photofixer_v4/

And they all seem fine - so it Is just IE ...


As I said - I am not primarily a web designer, is there any way I can auto
detect IE browsers and redirect users to a table based layout

I will look into the issue of correcting it for IE, but most of my potentia=
l
customers (photographers and ad agencies) are using OS X / Safari and
similar





On 13/3/08 5:40 pm, "Nigel Page" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> Whatever, you think of IE - most of your users will probably view your we=
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> site with it, and on a Windows platform.
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> They won't understand why it doesn't work and will just think that it's
> badly designed/built.
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> Get hold of an old cheap PC with Windows, install IE8 beta (which can
> emulate IE7), add MS Virtual PC (free) or VMWare and install another vers=
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> of Windows with IE6. If you upgrade to an Intel Mac you should be able to
> run VMWare and then Windows on that.
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> Also, remember IE5 on Mac is not the same as the Windows version and may
> render differently. IE8 beta, as I said is fully standards compliant.
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> Nigel.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Deaville" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS
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> - why does it not
> work, also I keep hearing that internet explorer is basically rubbish at
> displaying css, so I didn=B9t really expect it to work, is this not true
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> Can anyone point me to some relevant articles then please ...
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