Comments on: Poll: Browser-Specific CSS Styles

By: Cohen

Cohen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:25:47 +0000

@Ben +1 and :D for the 6-sided wheel.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:12:47 +0000

@Cohen No. What I am saying is that make your webpage work on all browsers, but don’t use non-standard tags like scroll bar colouring and that kind of thing. Another thing I’m saying is that Microsoft should actually make a browser that works to standards rather than inventing their own wheel (which has 6 sides :P)

By: Cohen

Cohen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:52:26 +0000

@Ben: so what are you saying: only follow the standards and if you’re web page (or web application) doesn’t look good or even doesn’t work because of it, just blame it on the user agent developers? Because they don’t follow standards?

I completely agree that a webpage should work on any browser (within reasonable limits). I just as much dislike a page that says: best viewed or designed for Firefox @ 1200×800 or something similar.

By the way the W3C doesn’t create standards, they make recommendations.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:40:16 +0000

Would people please stop using these damned non-standards based crap in their code. Microsoft can’t stick to standard as it is without flipping encouraging them to change it even more! Microsoft feel that they can do as they like browser wise because loads of idiots feel that there is such a huge learning curve between it and Firefox, which it is not. FNC hasn’t lent itself to the cause by subtitling Firefox as a search engine. Mainstream is not standard, when people learn this it’ll make our lives easier as webdevs. The worst even is pages that only work in Internet Explorer, that really really really annoys me! I hope that people will cop on eventually, because unless people stick their fingers up at Microsoft, they won’t change a thing!

By: Cohen

Cohen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:32:39 +0000

We use one stylesheet to rule them all (actually this gives better performance for users surfing through some kind of proxy or gateway).

But since data url’s can bring a significant performance improvement (24 requests vs 1 request) we are considering a stylesheet for new browsers vs old browsers. Maybe autogenerated (encapsulate the data url’s automatically).

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:50:51 +0000

Personally, I think Microsoft will try and create its own CSS anyway for IE, you already have to add so many hacks for IE8 to display anything correctly its unbelievable.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:24:32 +0000

If you would have added the option: “only if they validate”, that would be my answer.

By: Joost Kiens

Joost Kiens — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:53:29 +0000

Why not? a 2px radius on an input. Add a tiny drop shadow for webkit. Some opacity here an there, etc.
After spending a few boring hours with nerdy IE6, me and the cool browsers hang out together and do some extreme, progressive stuff. We just hope jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator will never find out.

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:03:05 +0000

Yeah, I have to say, rounded corners are a beautiful feature. Mostly, I add specific styles just to jazz up designs for browsers that support them. My designs degrade nicely without them, just in case, but they are nice to have in the mean time.

By: taylan

taylan — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:56:10 +0000

I use Firefox and do everything for it :). CSS file in other browsers accurate not much trouble. I would also recommend that visitors use Firefox.