Using CSS with different browsers
The purpose of this activity
The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to try out some of the techniques used to make your CSS work on non-compliant browsers. You are advised to code for Firefox first and then adapt your CSS to run on other browsers if required.
Activity Learning Outcomes
On completing this task you will be able to:
- establish some of the issues with cross browser support for CSS;
- solve some of these issues using ideas from web sites;
- report on some of these solutions;
Go to your module blog and create a post
"Activity 504: Looking at cross browser issues"
Instructions for the activity
- identify some of the issues with cross browser support. If you wish you may use your own sources of information or these web sites:
- thesitewizard.com discusses how to use different style sheets for different browsers;
- informIT for a discussion of browser support for CSS and a similar discussion from about.com;
- Go to your module blog and create a post "Activity 504: Looking at cross browser issues" which discusses an aspect of cross browser compatibility and gives links to where the information was obtained;