css question

Posted by cellis on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:23PM
from the self-post dept.

I know this is probably the most trivial thing of all, but are most of you using xhtml fully valid css, or do you tend to hack it? I have hacked quite a bit (okay, cut and pasted from other sites) of css, and written very little (fully valid css). What are other newsy startuppers doing?

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Re:css question by nostrademons on Monday September 17, 2007 @09:16PM (#56005)

My goal is generally "Works in Firefox, IE, and Safari", but last time I checked it validated fine. In general, I tend to think "it works" is more important than "it's right", but if I can make it right too without totally convoluting or breaking things, I might as well.

I never cut & paste from other sites. I like to understand what I'm doing - it's the best way to ensure that it stays working.

One thing that surprised me - after I got things working in Firefox, it was only about a half day's worth of effort to get them working in IE as well. I was expecting it to be much worse, given all the griping about cross-browser compatibility. So perhaps knowing what you're doing does have some benefits...

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Re:css question by run4yourlives on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:53PM (#55986)

Hack it how?

There is no reason to use hacks if you use conditional comments to deal with Microsoft's abominations one browser at a time. Most of the other browsers will work just fine, and when they don't, I either live with it, or alter the design so they do.

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Re:css question by cellis on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @02:23PM (#56428)

ok...here are some of my more traditional 'hacks'

negative margins ( margin-top:-5px; ) stylesheet switchers <?php if(xbrowser) { include'stylesheet1.php';} ?>

and so on

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Re:css question by nextmoveone on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:33PM (#55951)

I mix and match.

At work I'm valid.(I do this on purpose cause it takes a little bit longer)

For my stuff, I hack.(I do this cause it will still render correctly, as long as I check it on multiple OS and Browsers!)

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Re:css question by cellis on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:03PM (#55960)

hell yeah!

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Re:css question by raindoll on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:38PM (#55955)

css always valid, if you know what you're doing no hacks should be necessary

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Re:css question by cellis on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:54PM (#56069)

thats not really true. I won't post details, but I seem to run into situations daily where a certain rule gets applied in a variety of permutations over the domain of browsers.

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