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Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

From: Mathias Brodala <info(at)noctus.net>
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 13:30:16 EDT

Hi Andrew.

Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 19:10:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:

>> Hi Andrew.
>>
>> Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25:
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote:
>>>> Not to get all gripey or anything, but there are web standards for precisely 
>>>> this reason. See 
http://www.w3.org
>>> Having just put together my first real webpage (still pretty basic)
>>> let me tell you (I'm sure you know) its a royal PITA. I've had to make
>>> an extra stylesheet just for stupid IE and then put a check for IE in
>>> the headers.
>> No good solution, since headers can be manipulated at will. You better use
>> Conditional Comments[0] which only IE’s > 5.0 understand.
>>
>> [0] 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx

>
> how telling it is that the above link start with:
>
> "One of the most common operations performed in a Web page is to detect
> the browser type and version. Browser detection is performed to ensure
> that the content presented to the browser is compatible and renders
> correctly...."
>
> anyway, what I'm doing is:
>
> 

OK, so you are using CCâ€™s.

> within the <head> tag. It seems to work pretty well, and i suspect I'm
> a victim of not knowing the right terminology. I also suspect, since I
> don't have access to IE7, that it doesn't work properly for that.

Heard about IEs4Linux[1]? It makes testing in IE7 pretty simple. (For IE7 you need the beta.)

Regards, Mathias

[1] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

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