tashakota
Posted : 8/30/2010 9:35:21 AM
Internet Explorer still does not follow the W3C standards for web design and rendering. If you make it look right in Firefox, then it typically looks right in Opera and Safari, however IE may still look stupid. There are small things that can be done to fix those differences, but it does create quite the headache.
For example, if you have a width, then 25%, 25%, 25% and 25% should create 4 equally spaced "items" of the same width. IE does not like that. It says, no two have to be 24% because if not, it moves the 4th down a line. Firefox, creates 4 equally spaced items of the same width and keeps them on the same line.
So fixing the two items to be 24% causes a slight decrease in size in Firefox which if the background is not the same color, is visible. IE will show it fine though. This is how my company's home page is. 4 pictures of fluid width across the top. IE won't show them on the same line with that small adjustment, whereas Firefox showed a blue line at the end of the last picture because the background is blue. Our membership is a majority of IE users, so have to code for them.