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cruocitae · 07-10-2006, 01:04 PM

Although I'm a big fan of Firefox, I have to tell you something different:

If you want well-rendered sites, you have to make your site look good in an Acid2-compliant browser (OPERA 9)(which renders css absolutely as defined in the specs), and something which can handle Js as needed (firefox is the most advanced, opera is the fastest), and then create css and js files which are only used when the user agent is firefox or ie or anything. You can make this from PHP with the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable, or with the XML if.. (I think something like <![if .... , though I'm not sure), and make the site look good in the specified browsers.
So, the list:

Opera - third most popular, but most standard-compliant, use this to check your initial scripts and style sheets
Firefox - second most popular, and most popular among advanced users. Make sure your site looks good in it!
IE - everybody knows it, and it's the most popular. You should make your site look something like good in it, and put a Get Firefox or a Google Adsense Firefox referral button on the site if the user agent is IE.

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cruocitae Master Googler Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Terminus Posts: 531 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Although I'm a big fan of Firefox, I have to tell you something different: If you want well-rendered sites, you have to make your site look good in an Acid2-compliant browser (OPERA 9)(which renders css absolutely as defined in the specs), and something which can handle Js as needed (firefox is the most advanced, opera is the fastest), and then create css and js files which are only used when the user agent is firefox or ie or anything. You can make this from PHP with the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable, or with the XML if.. (I think something like <![if .... , though I'm not sure), and make the site look good in the specified browsers. So, the list: Opera - third most popular, but most standard-compliant, use this to check your initial scripts and style sheets Firefox - second most popular, and most popular among advanced users. Make sure your site looks good in it! IE - everybody knows it, and it's the most popular. You should make your site look something like good in it, and put a Get Firefox or a Google Adsense Firefox referral button on the site if the user agent is IE.