General Hacks
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:33 am
Hi,
I'm pretty new to making websites, I started about six months ago. Soon came acrross CMSMS and now a have a pretty descent site. One thing that's been driving me crazy:
When I make changes to my site I usually check it with IE8, FireFox and Google Chrome. Once everything is in place, I sometimes check it on someone else's PC that may have IE6 or 7. Most of the time I find something wrong. A horizontal rule that suddenly has a lot of white space or is lined up in the middle instead of on the left. Or maybe a news summary where all the floats have gone berserk. I tried to keep all the default Hacks in the templates and stylesheets intact, but some are missing.
Is there some kind of list of things that you should be aware of when making CSS? I mean things that work out diffently for IE8 than 7. Or general hacks that solve things for IE6.
Also, I suppose the dropdown menu template that I use is useless in IE6 because it won't work. So I made pages for the top-level list items where people can still find the deeper pages. I'm don't really care that much about IE6 though because I don't think that may people still use it, but if there's a few hacks I can use I would.
I'm pretty new to making websites, I started about six months ago. Soon came acrross CMSMS and now a have a pretty descent site. One thing that's been driving me crazy:
When I make changes to my site I usually check it with IE8, FireFox and Google Chrome. Once everything is in place, I sometimes check it on someone else's PC that may have IE6 or 7. Most of the time I find something wrong. A horizontal rule that suddenly has a lot of white space or is lined up in the middle instead of on the left. Or maybe a news summary where all the floats have gone berserk. I tried to keep all the default Hacks in the templates and stylesheets intact, but some are missing.
Is there some kind of list of things that you should be aware of when making CSS? I mean things that work out diffently for IE8 than 7. Or general hacks that solve things for IE6.
Also, I suppose the dropdown menu template that I use is useless in IE6 because it won't work. So I made pages for the top-level list items where people can still find the deeper pages. I'm don't really care that much about IE6 though because I don't think that may people still use it, but if there's a few hacks I can use I would.
