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
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