On Thursday 21 February 2002 12:36, adam wrote:
> settle on a browser and work exclusively with that. Up until now, I have
> been working exlusively with MSIE, but I would prefer to move to Mozilla
> support. This of course would entail "forcing" the browser on the user, but
> this shouldn't be a problem, because we would only be forcing the site
> admins to do so. The only worry I have is that I would like this to be
> portable, and administrators may not be able to work in, for example,
> cybercafes.
It's tempting to stick with IE because it's so widely used, but that urge
should be resisted :) Targeting mozilla is fine, and you could do cool stuff
like customizing the UI. The problems start to appear when you try to use
this stuff to automatically generate cross-browser HTML. Even if you assume
that anyone viewing a Phactory based website will use IE6 or Mozilla,
there are enough differences between these "standards compliant" browsers
to mess things up, especially with fiddly layouts or when you start letting
people upload stuff from dreamweaver (yuck).
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