[thelist] Page looks different in FF and IE

[Chris Hayes]

That's about it.  Forget trying to shoe-horn IE code into FF.

Build it in FF and you'll find if you have to tweak at all for IE it will be
minimal.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Rider" <evolt_org at striderweb.com>
To: "Minh Lee Goon" <evolt at goonies.info>; <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Page looks different in FF and IE


>
> On Nov 17, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Minh Lee Goon wrote:
>
> > I'd like to make Firefox my default browser (Is it more standards
> > compliant or is IE just more lenient?), but that's hard when my page
> > looks how I want it to in IE, but not in Firefox.
>
> Firefox is FAR more standards-compliant than IE.  The easiest way to
> make a site that looks (reasonably) the same in multiple browsers is to
> get it looking the way you want in a standards-compliant browser and
> then tweak it for the others (mostly IE, though I have had to do small
> tweaks for Opera, among others).
>
> Personally, I build the page checking it in Safari, crosscheck in
> Firefox (there's usually little difference between them), then wrangle
> the CSS for IE, then throw in some @import tinkering to make it degrade
> gracefully in Netscape 4.
>
>  From where you're standing (already built in IE), I would Quit IE and
> not look back until you have the page looking right in Firefox.  Then
> go back and  usually one or two "hacks" (such as the Box Model Hack)
> will get it going right in IE again.
>
> It all depends on the complexity of your site, of course.  Good Luck!
>
> Steve
>
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