Cinderella and her magical CSS

After a very long evening of research, testing and working through one of my least favorite issues - cross browser optimization, I came upon an article that made my night a little brighter. I loved this quote, all my frustration had been summed up so beautifully:

"In an ideal world, you only need one set of CSS style sheets for your website, and those styles will work with every browser currently being used. This, as every webmaster soon finds out when he/she uses CSS, is a pipe dream. The modern browsers all have uneven levels of implementation of the CSS standards. As though this isn't bad enough, their implementations are often buggy - and they don't share the same bugs! And when you have solved that tricky bit, you find that your site has certain visitors (often your best customers) who, for various reasons, are using older browsers that have only rudimentary support for CSS. "

UGH!!!! I know this is old news and everyone feels the same but after a very, very late night of coding and testing and re-testing...I had to vent :)

The good news is, this article provided not only good information but also some much needed validation; I am on the right track after all I realized as I read through the article's suggestions - most of this I already do or had done. And after being kicked around a little trying to accommodate all the different versions Internet Explorer, I appreciated the hug!

So I did finish my changes and it wasn't all as painful as I'd feared it would be. At times I did feel a little like Cinderella, trying to please my mean, ugly step sisters IE 6 and 7 and then my horrible step mother IE 8 would come in and kick up dirt on my nice clean floor! Luckily, my fairly web mother waved her magic wand....ok, enough with that already. I just created and linked an additional external style sheet as well as editing the ones I already had as needed for my sweet, well mannered friends Firefox and Safari, with all the warm fuzzies each browser needed to be happy.

For any and all interested, here the link to the entire article http://www.thesitewizard.com/css/excludecss.shtml

Good information, great tips and tricks plus the validation that you are not alone in the struggle to make all browsers happy - worth reading in my opinion.

Summer's coming to an end so I thought a bikini girl might be a nice farewell and welcome to fall. This one's a 1961 Gil Elvgren pinup called "just for you"