Re: [IUG] I.E. 7 and the Rel 2006 example set

[Ed Seedhouse <ed at gvpl dot ca>]

Zhou, Don wrote:
> Ed,
>
> You are absolutely right.  But in most cases you can get around the
> junk.  We have been able to do that except problems on the serial
> checkin boxes page. I think we have to live with that for now until
> Innovative can improve the code generating scheme.

I did live with it and hammered out a page that is at least fairly 
consistent across various browsers.  Fortunately from me we hired a Web 
Designer and *she* has to deal with it now.  :-)

> The discussion about style sheet: we have been able to just use one
> stylesheet to accommodate all browsers [different versions of IE, ff,

You should always be able to use one stylesheet (per media display type 
anyway), but Innovative's lousy classing makes it awfully hard, though 
not totally insurmountable.

The fact that iii seems to be going the multiple stylesheet route for 
their new product is another disaster, in my opinion.

Fact remains that CSS specifies rules only for valid html or xhtml. 
And innovative makes it impossible to supply that so they don't actually 
have any basis for complaint if different browsers render things in 
different ways. They need someone to explain the idea of semantic html 
to them, very badly. Their html really is a disaster and a shame.

OK, curmudgeon mode off.  Thankfully I no longer have to deal with it.  :-)

Ed