SOME RANDOM DUDE

I’ve been working on the finishing touches to the revamped Kacyra Foundation site (the old version is still currently live) but I’ve run into small issues along with way which has slowed things down now and then.

The latest issue that was recently resolved was a margin problem I was having in IE5.

Here’s how it was supposed to look:

Here was the bug:

After figuring out where the problem was, it wasn’t much a of problem to resolve with negative margins and a little sprinkle of the Box Model Hack. I still have to test it on the Mac when I get home, but I don’t think it’ll be a problem.

Why is this even brought up on my blog? After looking through the CSS file I put together, I noticed there were a ridiculous amount of conditions and hacks throughout each style that it seemed as though I was spending more time patching the styles to work across browsers than actually creating the initial style attributes. I know the standards movement isn’t getting much resistance from the designer/developers, but I have to think that the average-Joe viewer would like to have sites work properly no matter what browser they choose to view a site with. If they knew more about the process of making everything work on the web, I truly feel they’d voice their opinion with a little less ambivalence.

Obviously, Firefox is the hot topic in terms of standards-compliant browsers. However, Opera ain’t bad and Safari is quite good as well. Hell, IE6 is a dream compared to IE5. Hopefully, in a couple years, IE5 will go the way of NS4 and we won’t have to worry about whether or not the public decides to stand up for standards. Until then, I’ll be writing CSS that isn’t very fun to look at.box model hack, css, internet explorer, internet explorer 5 web development