Re: [Webwork-devel] HTML and CSS

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 19:29, Rickard wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been playing a lot with HTML and CSS these past days, and have 
> been extremely impressed with the kind of things you can create with CSS.
> 
> However, the best implementation of CSS, by *FAR*, is Mozilla. It has 
> all of CSS1, and a lot of cool stuff from CSS2. As y'all know, while 
> being technologically superior is great, it's not what counts in the 
> real world. IE5/5.5/6 has most of the market, which is more relevant for 
> most people.
> 
> That said, the level of support that IE has of CSS is "good enough" to 
> start using these features IMHO. It will look "ok", although the best 
> surfing experience is to be had with Mozilla (or Netscape6).
> 
> What I'm getting at here, is that I really would want to change the form 
> templates to use CSS more extensively. Currently we're using plain HTML 
> and tables in order to render things, but IMHO it would be better if we 
> could instead use CSS to achieve the proper formatting. It is so much 
> simpler then to change themes (just change the stylesheet reference!) 
> and be able to reuse the same HTML.
> 
> So, any thoughts on this? Would it be ok for you in your situation to 
> set IE5 as the baseline for your end-users?

I'm not sure about other people but using CSS exclusively for those
browsers is pretty out of the question for us. I think the stats
(obviously it depends greatly on your audience!) run about 10% for
Netscape 4 (pretty abominable CSS support) and 20% for IE4. 

I'd personally  be wary of supporting only IE5+ and Mozilla. 

My $0.02.

-mike