Testing browser compatibility

 two comments:

1. Gary - Wednesday, 6 June 2007 3:05 pm  

   When you say to "apply any star html hacks and stupid browser fixes as needed", what do you mean exactly?

2. Ivan - Wednesday, 6 June 2007 4:32 pm  

   Gary,

   Have you followed the link I provided? Maybe because it didn't point to a specific website, it discouraged you from investigating? If you look at our own stylesheet, you'll see that we mainly used it to subtly control stuff like widths and margins of some of the page elements:

   decrease the title top margin:

   * html .title, .title a {
      margin-top: 0.5em;                  /* stupid ie hack */
   }
   

   decrease the tagline left margin:

   * html #tagline {
      margin-left: 70px;                  /* stupid ie hack */
   }
   

   decrease the searchform textbox width:

   * html #searchform input.textbox {
      width: 80%;                         /* stupid ie hack */
   }
   

   increase the tagcloud line height:

   * html div.tagcloud {
      line-height: 2.6em;                 /* stupid ie hack */
   }
   

   decrease the simplechart width:

   * html div#simplechart table {
      width: 85%;                         /* stupid ie hack */
   }
   

   I won't go into the theory behind what makes "star html" hacks work, just follow the original link in the post, above.

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