[thelist] IE6
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 29 05:00:03 CDT 2001
>>Yet another browser with New Features!!
>>
>>Yes they implement the dreaded CSS Box Model correctly.
>
>They finally got CSS1 right! It's nice to see Microsoft
>play by the rules (at least in this area).
Small fry. The real question is: does it support position: fixed? If it
doesn't all CSS1 stuff is worthless, because position: fixed is the only way
to truly new implementations (for instance, a frame-like page with a fixed
navigation, combining the advantages of frames and noframes).
As to the box model, I still support the original MS implementation: it's
much more intuitive than W3C's recommendation. Of course this doesn't help a
bit, we'll have to steer between the various browsers.
>Now let's all use the <!DOCTYPE..> in our pages to trigger
>W3C-compliancy.
I'm afraid it won't be so simple. IE6 and NN6 have their own, separate
implementation of DOCTYPEs and their own bugs. I'm afraid we're forced to do
if (ns)
document.write('<!DOCTYPE etc>');
else if (ie)
document.write('<!DOCTYPE etc>');
Mark my words, doctypes are going to cause a godawful lot of cross-browser
trouble.
ppk
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