CSS Compatibility of Site

[kjs50]

Hello,

I was looking at the Macromedia home page and it is all CSS and looks beautiful. I'm wondering if anyone knows how cross browser compatible their CSS is? Especially the rounded boxes and the layout.

Thanks.

[isitreal]

That site seems to be very stable for a div constructed site, at least on PC's, they did a really good job on it, it's worth studying in terms of learning how to make a div site. The corners break down on Mozilla/netscape on resizing, at about 750 pixels width

The rounded borders are background images, so they display fine, except on small window view on mozilla.

I'd be curious to see how it does on Mac IE 5, especially on OS 9, and Safari.

[edited by: isitreal at 6:34 pm (utc) on April 8, 2004]

[RammsteinNicCage]

I've looked at the homepage with these browsers:

Opera 7.23 - looked fine
IE 6, 5.01, 5.5 - looked fine
NN 7.1 - looked fine
NN 6.2 - secondary menu doesn't appear to work
Firefox 0.8 - looked fine
NN 4.7 - tries to degrade gracefully....

I think all of them had a "You may not have everything you need to view certain sections of Macromedia.com. Please see our site requirements." thing except for IE 6 and NN 7. In the site requirements, they do list Mozilla as being compatible (but not Opera) - however, the site requirements thing still came up when I used Firefox.

Rounded corners all fine, I couldn't even see anything a pixel out of place. :)

Jennifer

[jetboy_70]

Opera Internet Browser (win32) has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Macromedia site on Opera 5 under Windows XP.

[kjs50]

so it's probabably at 99% compliant and I'd probably be willing to make that sacrifice for a design that looks as clean as theirs does.

I can probably do it pretty cleanly with tables as well. Maybe tables to do the layout and put the main body in a div to get the border effect.

[vwds]

The site looked good in Mozilla 1.7beta. I did not recieve the requirements warning. In one of the other posts I noticed someone said that they got the requirements waring in Firefox even though the site said it was compatable with Mozilla. The reason for this is that FireFox isn't Mozilla, it is a different browser created by the Mozilla team. Just trying to clear things up a bit. Please take no offense.

VWDS

[isitreal]

Macromedia is doing some fairly major server side browser sniffing on that site code, it's delivering completely different pages for IE and other browsers.

The IE 5x pages are in HTML 4, Mozilla in XHTML 1 transitional. It looks like they are also using different stylesheets. I didn't check IE 6 to see what that was getting.

Re: mozilla/firefox: macromedia is doing the browser sniffing wrong, they need to test for the string 'gecko', not 'mozilla'/'netscape'.

Also, because safari uses gecko in its navigator user agent, safari/konqueror have to be tested first, then gecko. This will give a good result for all gecko based browsers, including galeon, k-meleon, etc, which all use the same rendering engine per version.