Sent by Aaron Mehl on 16 December 2002 14:02
--On Friday, December 13, 2002 11:20:31 AM -0500 "Alan K. Gay"
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> I would propose as 2 rules:
I guess we would call this rule audience. but my main concern was just IE,
Mozilla, and Opera at least for now.
> 1) Make an educated/business decision about the universe of browsers
> and/or other user agents (PDAs, aurel, etc) you want to support
> completely, the universe you want to degrade gracefully, and the
> universe you plan to ignore, and stick to it.
>
2) Define a strategy for addressing box model implementation variation
> for each site/page and implement it completely.
>This is a bit vague for me to put into a rule. This I assume is
positioning within the box padding or positioning the box itself, float
absolute positioning and margins.
By strategy you mean??
I want rules that are a basis for good design not so much strategies.
thanks
Aaron
> If you do #1, you can effectively filter a lot of the other advise you
> will get. Regarding #2, there is a whole subtopic on what the issues
> are and the way(s) they can be addressed, including designing in such a
> way that you can ignore the issue. But if you first do #1, and then #2
> in the context of #1, you can minimize the downstream headaches and
> issues associated with hacks, multiple style sheets, etc by planning
> correctly upfront.
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