Sent by Jeff Moyes on 23 January 2006 16:04
All,
Also, I should add a big +1 for what Zoe says about "No, and such a
thing would be extremely difficult to create. Most of its CSS bugs
aren't as simple as 'doesn't support the property min-width' or
something, but are more dependent on the particular combination of
things that is going on in a page." I remember both Eric Meyer and
Dave Hyatt mentioning similar things. Rendering Engine support charts
aren't very accurate by their very nature. Whether a given RE supports
something usually isn't a yes/no issue or even yes/partial/no because
what does "partial" really mean? - a hundred different things depending
on the css and the element it's applied to in relationship to the other
elements around it their css. So we can't live or die by RE support
charts, rather we have to go off of what works in a given situation.
Having said that though, I do see some value in knowing whether a given
rendering engine even begins to support a given feature or not, as then
you can decide whether you want to spend the time to try to work around
whatever bugs the RE may have to get the feature working, or instead be
able to know up front that there's no possibility of it working. (In
this particular case where I'm trying to help walk my friend through the
css - which always takes longer than if it's your own project - knowing
up front to not even try something could be helpful.)
Again, thanks all for the input. It has been very helpful
Jeff Moyes
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