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Hi,
I currently have this huge issue in making a website I am working on <a href=“http://www.icreateinc.org”>www.icreateinc.org</a> become cross-browser compatiable with Internet Explorer 6/7. It views perfectly in Safari, but when its viewed to IE it looks like manure. The main problem I have is making the web page <a href=“http://www.icreateinc.org/sponsors/index.html”>www.icreateinc.org/sponsors/</a> look the same way in Safari in IE.
Seeing so many beautiful CSS +XHTML websites being compatiable in most browsers makes me curious in wanting to know how they achieved cross-browser compatiability? What are your methods in making a web design compatiable, especially in IE? Is there a certain way or method you find the bugs that causes messes, and when you find them, do you use alternative CSS selectors to make the same effect?
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- CommentAuthorPettyRider
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2007
I think once you've been developing for 6 mos to a year, you kinda know every browser's little bugs and avoid them/correct them as you code. You learn what methods are tried-and-true, which methods to completely avoid, and which methods to settle on as a final attempt (like adding markup).
Just as an example, most times it makes sense to get this little bit over to the right be floating it. Other times, it's more compatible to position the container relative and position the element absolutely to the right and top. You'll know immediately that "This float won't clear. IE6 is going to guillotine this when I hover over that.." and et cetera.
So, the method is knowledge; the method is time.
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