What, as of today, would be the best way to handle browser differences?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by joliett89, Feb 10, 2012.

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    When starting to work on a website from scratch? For now, I use one of the CSS resets:

    http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
    http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ (Eric Meyer)

    Would you still worry about all that Internet Explorer issues (only about 3.1% of people use it as of 01.2012)? I know it depends on who is watching the website too (if there is a lot of visitors every day with IE it probably makes sense to make everything work right etc.)

    http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp
    http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

    What are the other things that you do in order to avoid the headache in the future?

    Thank you.
     
    joliett89, Feb 10, 2012 IP
  2. drhowarddrfine

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    Do NOT use w3schools for stats on browser usage. That's stats for people who visit THEIR site and not the general population. Use StatCounter instead though there are others.

    A css reset, in most cases, is not necessary if you are already setting a value for the elements you use. Otherwise a reset is just slowing down the browser.

    Never, EVER trust IE to do ANYTHING right. If it works in IE, but not a modern browser, your markup is wrong.
     
    drhowarddrfine, Feb 10, 2012 IP