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HTML Mayhem
How to lose 5 hours due to dumb browsers
So after reading countless articles on how CSS is the thing in webdesign and how it should be used as much as possible and even how the old table layout is archaic compared to the new uber cool css-div based position, I decided to give it a try. Took me a while to change the main template into div elements, set the style properties correctly when I hit my first problem: you can't set div columns to have 100% height. Ok after an hour or so I decided to just lose those div columns - I didn't like that, but hey, as long as it works...Then when I finally managed to create a style, I adapted it for acms, uploaded it to sr3 and tried it out. It looked ok in Firefox (on which I was developing). But since the main browser is of course IE, I fired that up and tested the site. The result wasn't what I expected. So I spent the next 3 hours trying to remove the differences to achieve a unified look on all 3 browsers I can run on windows (ie, ff, opera). Funny thing was that with certain positioning I just couldn't get IE and FF to show the same layout. Right then I lost my nerves and threw everything away. After lunch (mmm pizza), I tried again, losing another 2 hours to remove the differences and as a result, the whole template of showroom3 has changed having only one visible difference: the lack of instant login from the top bar. Once again being an IE thing (which adds huge spaces around <form> elements), I simply decided to lose the feature.
What have I accomplished?
Showroom3 now has a nice, clean, css template, which 99.9% will claim that it's worse than before since the login box is missing.
I bet that Netscape and IE 5.5 don't display the site properly, which means I'm probably gonna return to old school table style soon...
Anyway to those that want to try out the css styled page layout. It's a really nice thing when developing for one browser only. But when you need a site that is 100% compatible with all browsers, go with the old school tables.
Oh, and I tried acid2 test on IE7 the other day. It fails miserably.
Posted on 3. June 2006 17:31 | Views: 302
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