- From: Tina Marie Holmboe <tina@elfi.elfi.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:23:16 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:15:27PM +0000, Vadim Plessky wrote: > Anyway, I can advise you to check out MS IE6/Windows and MacIE 5.1. > Both of them have very good CSS support. Previous tests with IE 6 for Windows have shown it to indeed be a very good CSS 1 & 2 browser. However, it is still lacking in several important (my opinion) areas. I hope that new upgrades will bring it up to the level of support currently found in Mozilla and Opera; in particular for centering of block level elements and fixed positioning. > Sidenote: make sure that you have HTML4 Strict DTD for all your HTML files. > Otherwsie, IE6 will render your page in Quirk mode. Both Opera, Mozilla, NS 6 and IE 6 now use the DOCTYPE to determine whether to render information in compatibility modes. > * CSS2 has some parts defined in different way, comparing to CSS1 This is a quite common occurrence with new versions of old technologies, as experiences are brough on line. > * CSS3 will have some parts *different from CSS2* (even thoughs none > implemented CSS2 support yet) Naturally. > * CSS rendering model itself is rather outdated and misleading > (check "How is it possible to devise such a feeble system?" thread on > www-style list; I posted some comments on that thread, in addition to very > valuable comments from MS people.) Sadly, one of the W3C's servers are currently down, but I must admit that this confuses me. What is wrong with the CSS rendering model ? > One of major limitations is inability to position/center block element > vertically, without doing some terrible hacks. Centering a block element vertically - especially on a continuous media type - doesn't make an awful lot of sense, IMnsHO. > | > | No matter. I use Mozilla 0.9.6 for my everyday browser, and have never > | regretted it. > > Probably you have very fast computer :-) Pentium III 550 Mhz with 128 MB RAM. -- - Tina Holmboe
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