Re: CSS, javascript, ajax and different browsers

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

superpreview is a nice product from MSFT.  It shows your page
rendering in different versions of IE.

http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565874.aspx

-Steve


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  +1 for jQuery. There have been a few odd js things that have come back
> to bite me but sticking with jQuery has been pretty awesome.  Since I
> use Firefox in all of my development work, I occasionally get a customer
> calling with some weirdness that ends up being something in IE that I
> need to code around, but that is getting rare.
>
> The CSS stuff is really annoying, more so than javascript, but if it is
> ugly in IE I just blame that on Microsoft.  As long as it functions, I
> can live with ugly.
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc
> www.valadd.com
> www.opensource4i.com
>
>
> On 9/19/2010 3:00 PM, Kevin Turner wrote:
> > We use jquery because, apart from being hugely powerful, it handles 99% of the browser differences for you. To be honest, IE is the only fly in the ointment. The others all behave pretty consistently. No dumbing down required - in fact, just the opposite.
> >
> > On 19 Sep 2010, at 20:52, "Jim Franz"<franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> > > In dealing with customer web pages (order entry) how are others handling browser differences?
> > > Do you dumb the features down to a level most browser accept or code sections for different browsers? This is search&  data entry&  not so much point&  click,&  project on a skinny budget.
> > >
> > > Depending upon whose stats (this is w3schools),
> > > Internet Exp8 16.2%  IE7   7.8%    IE6  6.7% Total 30.7
> > > Firefox 4.0    0.6%  3.6  35.2%    3.5  6.1% Total 45.8
> > > Chrome 6.0     1.4%  5.0  15.1%    4.0  0.3% Total 17.0
> > > Safari S5      2.6%  ...                            3.5
> > >
> > > We want to set a minimum standard for browsers.
> > > All of this will be in rpgle cgi.
> > > Jim Franz
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