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Re: [LUG] website coding

 

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Neil Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 24 September 2005 5:16 pm, Neil Stone wrote:
> 
>>Anyone here know much about website coding, ie how to keep sites cross
>>browser friendly??
> 
> 
> 1. HTML 4 Strict validation.
> 2. See 1.
> 
> 
>>If so, please email me off list.
> 
> 
> Seeing as that is presumably what you already knew, I assume you are ACTUALLY 
> asking:
> 
> How do I work around Internet Explorer bugs?
> 
> I'm afraid that is trial and error. Seeing as M$ don't even know where the 
> bugs are in IE, I doubt it's useful to try to create any robust rules that 
> would allow any one site to conform to a broken browser.
> 
> :-)
> 
> My answer, I'm afraid, is "I don't care if it doesn't work in IE." My sites 
> are HTML4 strict valid and that's it. If anyone (i.e. any IE user) has a 
> problem with that they can take it up with Microsoft. (Yeah, right, like 
> *they* care.)
> 
> I take it you've been asked/told to make a valid/usable site IE friendly? 
> 

The site is the other way around... heavy use of JS, poorly coded and
simply doesn't work in Furryfox...

The company whose website it is seem not to give two hoots.. I am not
sure if I am prepaired to let them get away with such bad code, but need
to provide them with working code that works over many browsers, as
opposed to JUST ie...

Neil
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