Eric Meyer has released a new selection of designs over on Meyerweb. The designs are inspiring, and Eric’s CSS is well worth perusing for style tips and insights in to reliable methods of creating relatively complex layouts.
My IE6 browser is obviously more broken than it should be as it doesn't show anything approaching what I assume it should look like (mozilla) apart from the fact that opera 7 doesn't show the 2 in 2003 (although opera 6 does) and mozila doesn't show the entry heading underlines. Omniweb fails to show the nice open bracket nextto the paragraph mark and the backgrounds on the menu headers. Camino seems to manage most of it..
I wouldn't take these as cross browser designs at all.. although it's a nice play with what Camino can manage.
Interesting. IE6 render things fairly well for me, and very consistently with Mozilla, in all themes except "Matrix" which is still in progress. Opera 7 shows the "2" in every "2003." It (and Safari, I'm told) do cut off the "T" in "Thoughts From Eric" in "Eos," but that appears to be either a painting problem or a mishandling of :first-letter.
The designs all render quite well in IE5/Mac, too, with the (again) exception of "Matrix."
Of course, the goal in my case is not to have pixel-fidelity rendering in multiple browsers, which is impossible no matter what one does. It was to have relatively consistent experiences which were still readable and accessible, and to use positioning. Also to spruce up the site a bit, as it had been using the same minimalist design for quite some time now.
I did do a lot of testing in IE6, and in fact there are already several workarounds to cope with that browser's flaws. At this point, it should be largely consistent with more capable browsers. If it isn't, I'm not sure what's happened, but it could be install-specific. Ordinarily I wouldn't use that excuse, but when it comes to IE/Win, just about anything is possible.
As for OmniWeb, I didn't even try it. Since they're migrating to a new rendering engine, it just didn't seem worth stressing over, any more than I would over iCab, which has fantastic HTML support but so-so CSS support, last I looked. The content should still all be highly readable if CSS is turned off, which was a primary goal for this redesign.
(Thanks for the mention, Simon.)
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Tim Parkin - 12th June 2003 12:53 - #
Eric - 12th June 2003 16:10 - #