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Re: [LUG] CSS driving me nuts

 


Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> The specific question is probably a bit off topic.
> 
> I have spent ages fighting CSS on a site I have ended up taking over.
> In fact I have mentioned it before and had some great help with the
> SQL and the php. Anyway I have jammed it all in a CMS system now and
> its working well but I have hit *the* CSS problem.
> 
> Site looks great in Firefox, and not to bad in IE7 and IE6 some small
> font differences and spacing but its acceptable. IE5 is a horror
> though.
> 
> I've got the main pages validated on w3c/org for XHTML and CSS (still
> issues on some of the generated pages of lists etc  but thats WIP)
> 
> Should I care about IE5? As its really old and very broken should i
> just ignore this problem. At the end of the day I need to maintain a
> professional image for the site its not my homebrew hobby site. Any
> idea how to fix the menu spacing for IE5?

Short answer ignore IE5.  I don't know what the usage stats are but I 
suspect they are fairly low, and I never reckon that it is worth the 
time to fix it for them. Especially as you may have to do something 
invalidating to do it.

W



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