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Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?



Hi Andrew.

Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 19:10:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Hi Andrew.
>>
>> Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25:
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote:
>>>> Not to get all gripey or anything, but there are web standards for precisely 
>>>> this reason. See http://www.w3.org
>>> Having just put together my first real webpage (still pretty basic)
>>> let me tell you (I'm sure you know) its a royal PITA. I've had to make
>>> an extra stylesheet just for stupid IE and then put a check for IE in
>>> the headers.
>> No good solution, since headers can be manipulated at will. You better use
>> Conditional Comments[0] which only IE’s > 5.0 understand.
>>
>> [0] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx
> 
> how telling it is that the above link start with: 
> 
> "One of the most common operations performed in a Web page is to detect
> the browser type and version. Browser detection is performed to ensure
> that the content presented to the browser is compatible and renders
> correctly...."
> 
> anyway, what I'm doing is: 
> 
> <!--[if lte IE 6]>
> <link href="ie-web.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
> <![endif]-->

OK, so you are using CC’s.

> within the <head> tag. It seems to work pretty well, and i suspect I'm
> a victim of not knowing the right terminology. I also suspect, since I
> don't have access to IE7, that it doesn't work properly for that.

Heard about IEs4Linux[1]? It makes testing in IE7 pretty simple. (For IE7 you
need the beta.)


Regards, Mathias

[1] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

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