- Create a nice web standards compliant web site, testing in Firefox and Safari.
- Test the site in IE6 and create IE6 specific hacks for things that need tweaking.
- Test the site in IE7 and create IE7 specific hacks for things that need tweaking.
- Whenever you add new features to the site, try to remember to test in IE6 and adjust as needed.
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Matt Wiebe adds this Comment:
So true!
At least IE7 isn’t quite as bad as IE6… Most IE6 fixes (CSS-wise, anyways) tend to sort out IE7, thankfully.
April 16th, 2007 at 7:27 am
William Manning adds this Comment:
1. Create and test in a web standards compliant browser, Firefox/Safari
2. Put a best viewed in FireFox banner on your site
3. Screw IE
April 16th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Collin adds this Comment:
@William - I see what you’re doing there
I’d rather not screw IE though, it’s bad enough to try and work with now!
April 16th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Art of Seduction adds this Comment:
Step 1. Design by viewing in Firefox
Step 2. Fix bugs in IE7
Step 3. Fix bugs in IE6
Step 4. Fix new bugs that appear in Firefox after fixing them for IE6 & 7
Step 5. Repeat Endlessly.
April 16th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Yeah, usually IE7 almost works well for me after building for Firefox/Safari.
I make my IE changes in override stylesheets, so they never break Firefox.
April 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Sven Schoene adds this Comment:
I can exactly understand what you’ve written, Alex! But I have to admit that I’m a bit shocked that nobody here tests his site for IE
April 17th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Only William said he doesn’t test in IE.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Sven Schoene adds this Comment:
Sorry, my message got cut off after I used the “smaller than”-symbol.
I meant IE smaller than 6, e.g. IE 5.5. and 5.
I’m still testing on these ones because sometimes it really looks horribly wrong and broken in these browsers.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
According to Wikipedia, IE 5.x and lower is less than .7% marketshare. You have to cut the cord sometime.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
eric adds this Comment:
The modern os-based application development process:
1. Create a nice standards-compliant application on your platform of choice.
2. Test.
3. Release.
:p
(well ok, obviously it’s not quite that clean, but … nonetheless *much* less frustrating.)
April 17th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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Andreas adds this Comment:
So sad, yet so very true…
April 18th, 2007 at 4:10 am
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