greg-wood.co.uk
The homepage of web designer Gregory James Wood
The Blog
Who Doesn’t Love Microsoft?
Recently I came across a PC with IE7 installed. Stupidly, I had assumed that the new version of the most popular browser in the world would handle CSS based websites effectively and efficiently. I was wrong.
I’ll be the first to admit, it was rather silly of me to not even look into IE7’s display issues before launching this very site. What did I expect? CSS handling worthy of Firefox? Text rendering worthy of Safari? Well, to be honest, yes. For a browser so long coming, to me it’s just an inconvenience to now have to develop front end code for two broken browsers instead of one.
Do Us a Favour
Before I embark on a CSS debugging mission, has anyone got any tips? I know little about IE7, apart from the fact that it seems to like adding bullets to lists with a list-style:none; command. Oh and also, that some combinations of padding and margins seem to mess up, in my case placing paragraph text outside its background area (homepage - post comments, permalink etc).
Would it be best to include a IE7 specific style sheet as I often do for IE6 and earlier? Or am I making a mountain out of a molehill; there are only a few bugs that can be fixed with simple CSS styling?
Also, apologies to the 40% of IE7 users browsing this site, I hope you’ll return after the purge!
Post a comment
About this entry
- Posted on: 17/04/07
- Posted in: CSS
Feed Me!
RSS feeds, for all your content-to-desktop needs!
Feed me what? I hear you ask. Well, RSS feeds are a fantastic way of getting content from your favourite websites delivered to your desktop. No need to trawl through your favourites checking for updates! Especially useful for arse-ugly websites.
Copyright © Greg Wood mail@greg-wood.co.uk http://www.greg-wood.co.uk 2007 | Everything here protected and licensed using a Creative commons license | Get some RSS
Comments (1)
Post a comment
Andrew Rickmann // 17/04/07
Greg, the differences between Firefox and IE7 aren’t huge. I have found that in most cases there are no differences, and where there are a little trial and error usually solves the problem.
If you aren’t already you might get some benefit from Eric Meyer’s reset style sheet. He put up a new version a few days ago.