Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:49 pm
Just thought that I'd post to let you know that out of curiosity, I've decided to re-build a site that needed re-building anyway, using entirely CSS.
It's going pretty well -- but I'm having font-resizing issues (works fine in Firefox, but IE is ignoring the resizing instructions even though it pays attention to other things in the shorthand font line), and the classic overlap issues in Linux are popping up. I think there is at least one easy way to get rid of it which I don't have access to because of the graphics on the page.
I do like the fact that the code is very clean and easy to read compared to even a well-made table-based design. I wonder if that makes search engines happier. But even if it does, I'm not converting our property website over to CSS until I am absolutely certain that it will look as good in every browser afterwards as it does now.
What are the usual workarounds for these types of things? Can I make certain attributes browser-specific? OS-specific?
I dunno, it seems like all the tweaking I'm doing makes this just as temperamental as tables.
It's going pretty well -- but I'm having font-resizing issues (works fine in Firefox, but IE is ignoring the resizing instructions even though it pays attention to other things in the shorthand font line), and the classic overlap issues in Linux are popping up. I think there is at least one easy way to get rid of it which I don't have access to because of the graphics on the page.
I do like the fact that the code is very clean and easy to read compared to even a well-made table-based design. I wonder if that makes search engines happier. But even if it does, I'm not converting our property website over to CSS until I am absolutely certain that it will look as good in every browser afterwards as it does now.
What are the usual workarounds for these types of things? Can I make certain attributes browser-specific? OS-specific?
I dunno, it seems like all the tweaking I'm doing makes this just as temperamental as tables.