the upside of a monopoly?

[mamajoan]

Arrgghh... I'm trying to redesign my website and the different browsers are vexing me. It seems that between IE5, Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6.x, and Opera, no two of them support CSS exactly the same way.

IE5 is happy with a simple definition of a font within the body style. But if the page contains a table, the style doesn't "cascade" properly in Netscape and Opera. Result: You have to define the font *again* within a table (td) style.

So, okay, that sucks but I could live with it. But then I find that Netscape and Opera don't support styles for definition lists (dl dt) at all in a linked style sheet. They do support it in the head of the document, which is just unbelievably fucking stupid.

So now I have to define different styles in different places, and use them over and over. Which is defeating the entire goddamn POINT of using css in the first place. Argghhh!

Stupid fucking moron developers. There's a goddamn HTML standard, make your browser freaking support it! If the Netscape people were more concerned with supporting the universally-agreed-upon specification, and less interested in being Different From Microsoft, I wouldn't be having these damn issues.

I mean, I'd love to love Netscape, but frankly, the fact is that when I write HTML and test it in IE, it Just Plain Works. When I pull it into Netscape, I have to tweak it and add a whole bunch of extraneous redundant code, just to make it look the same as it looks in IE. It's fucking stupid.

Maybe I should go soak my head now. Aarrrghh.

Comments

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I spoke too soon. Opera likes it fine with the style defined in the head; Netscape still hates it. Sigh.