Re: XBlue_Pro theme

Craig Hamlin wrote in news:bfuuab$15g$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]:

> both good ideas... I like the color one best. The border thing can
> throw off windows broken box-model. Come to think of it, if it wasn't
> for IE css wouldn't be difficult at all.

I agree that using border can have problems with IE's broken box model.
But it's still just a debugging device and when you're simply trying to
*position* an element (absolutely, relatively, within, or next to
another) it's good enough, especially since the background remains
transparent (you can turn it off temporarily if necessary): that way 
other maybe
overlapping borders will also show.

And during that 'positioning' phase it's sufficient just to test with a
decent browser like Moz :)). For sizing, when you need it for all
browsers, the background-color usually is best. A combination can also
help in some circumstances. 

There are a few other tricks along the same lines (I'm sure you can
think up your own) but these two have become habitual for me now. 

And ... recently I switched from IE to Moz 1.4 as my default browser,
having gotten just too disgusted with the bugs in IE (and knowing they
won't be fixed any time soon - if ever). I miss a few handy things - but
then again I got a few (maybe more) other handy things back in exchange
:)

In terms of CSS design, IE has now almost taken over the role of NN4.x 
(which will hopefully soon die now there's no official support any 
more).


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