- From: Andrew Michael Eberbach <ameberba@student.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:18:35 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello, I'm currently trying to develop a site that has a decent layout but that avoids table hacks and uses pure(ish) CSS. The thing that I've realized is that there is a tremendous amount of difference between the way each major browser (I'm ignoring ns 4.x as an abomination) handles the same code. Now I realize that browsers, being non-trivial applications, will have bugs. But what if these things fall within the spec? Or just their interpretation of the spec? So my real questions are: 1) What would you suggest I do to get clean cross-browser layout 2) Why is there no reference implementation on which other browsers could judge their behavior? I mean someone could come up with a clever way of abstracting the spec and implementing it in SVG or such with built in debugging tools. For example, having a way to tell the distance that the browser thinks is between two elements (ie the computed values for width, height). Oh, the browsers I'm tageting are IE 5+, Opera 7+, Mozilla 1.2+. Thanks, Andrew Eberbach
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