Re: Constructing the layout for web-based applications

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jim Moe wrote:

> You cannot have IE compatibility and use non-IE features.

That depends on what you understand by "compatibility". If you design
for graceful fallback on lesser browsers, IE will happily reveal
itself as a lesser browser. Users aren't in the habit of viewing your
pages on several browsers and awarding marks for identity of
rendering: what they want is convenient access to your /content/
(although it has to be admitted that all too many pages are designed
solely on considerations set out by the sponsor and the designer, with
precious little thought for the end user. Quite what use that is,
is left as an exercise for the student...).

> You must dumb down your CSS to match IE.

I can't agree. If you design for graceful fallback, you can get even
better results on WWW-conforming browsers, while still getting more
than adequate results on that lesser browser, as well as on a wide
range of other browsing situations.

Whereas those who design only for the lesser browser get - at best -
poor results on www-compatible browsers - all too often, web pages
that simply don't work at all on them. So unless you're being bribed
to reject anyone who cares about the browser that they use, I'd
recommend graceful fallback.
.

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