Currently I am designing a website and I am finding it VERY difficult to display the website perfect on ALL browsers.
Is there any rules, suggestions etc to follow?
Thanks
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Currently I am designing a website and I am finding it VERY difficult to display the website perfect on ALL browsers.
Is there any rules, suggestions etc to follow?
Thanks
It is practically impossible to get a website to look exactly the same on all browsers and platforms. Number one reason is that fonts are rendered differently on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc.
There is a new thought we follow: Websites do not have to look exactly the same on different browsers and platforms. You can take it to 96-98% of the way there very easily. The rest would take you an inordinate amount of effort for the potential gain.
We start development for Firefox. If we get that one right, the rest of the browsers are very close. IE is the real tricky one to get right most of the time. I recommend that you tell your client or yourselves that IE 6 is not really a requirement anymore.
Make sure you start off on the right foot by using a ‘reset’ css stylesheet that puts all browser output on common ground. Check out: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
Lastly, save yourself some trouble and standardize on a Javascript library like ExtJS or JQuery or Prototype that will conceal away the browser differences and let you concentrate on the code for your project.