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On Friday 13 July 2007 10:09, 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? do the other pages look bad in IE5? While there is no particular reason to support IE5 I often wonder about the usability of 3 column pages. It doesn't look too bad at 800*600 but I always believe that you should ask yourself "Does my web page have a right or need to completely take over someones monitor?". The answer is generally a big NO. Take the 'forthcoming seminars' page - you can squeeze that up to 1/2 the width of a 1024*768 screen and then have your calendar squeezed into the other half and cut and paste the details into your calender without lots of window hunting or ctrl-tab keying. Now that to me is a useful, helpful friendly page. Try it and then go back to the home page. Its fallen apart. Now ask yourself if you want your web site to look flash or be useful. Tom te tom te tom > Site in question is under development at > > http://test.magsoc.org.uk > > Many TIA > > > -- > Robin Cornelius > http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html