Re: Using dashed underline in CSS

Subject: Re: Using dashed underline in CSS
From: bcliver -at- manu -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:18:33 -0400


margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net wrote:
>I'm in the middle of a redesign for our company site, and I've cribbed a
>number of useful styles from other sites in the process, modifying them
>as needed. One of the things I've noticed as I work through this is that
>Netscape 7.1 definitely renders certain things differently from IE 6,
>especially in the area of borders and backgrounds. Nonetheless, these
>styles are not _broken_ in Netscape. They're just rendered differently;
>and the differences are generally wallpaper seams--once the wall is
>papered, nobody will notice but you. I'd say it's not so much an error
>as the fundamental nature of browsers. There's a degree of freedom in
>there that is beyond the designer's control. And that's even before we
>address the question of whether we have any business as designers
>controlling the way the user sees stuff in a browser in the first place.

>I think this is an example of [extremely] small stuff, and we shouldn't
>sweat the small stuff.

Thanks, Dick. I agree.

Your experience with Netscape 7.1 is similar to mine. Our customers
prefer IE, so I'm not pole vaulting over this one. I may try Bonnie's
suggestion, at least for fun. Thanks, Bonnie!


Barry Cliver
Lead Technical Writer

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