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The image by itself doesn't mean anything if you can't see how it's working in an actual page.

I have no idea what that's s'posed to mean. Got a link to a page?

Like I said: you can't stretch background images - they only appear at their true dimensions.

You can't stretch a background image. You can repeat it though. You can stretch an image in the HTML though if you specify its width and height in the CSS and use ems as your unit, e.g.: img#yourImage { width: 2em; height: 3em; }

Sorry, what's the actual question?

Developers have been clamouring for years about changes that IE developers need to make to their product and as I pointed out earlier, there's probably a reason why their requests have fallen on deaf ears. Conret, Mozilla is open source - it's not a business. And you've just contradicted yourself. You say cos IE is the original, most people will stick with it, but then you say: which means that all those who now have FF won't bother going back to IE7 when it comes out. Mayank, MS has stopped support for IE Mac and now advises people to use Safari instead.

Using absolute positioning for laying out large blocks of content (ie columns etc.) rarely makes for a design that stands up in all browsers, screen resolutions and text sizes.

Works for me. Your computer is retarded.

Since the last forum upgrade, when you click on 'last post by' it just takes you to the beginning of a thread. Just thought I'd mention it.

I'm all for people having their own choice and not having others' preferences forced upon them and while I'm a fan of Firefox I'm also not the sort of person to actively support anti-IE campaigns. But to answer your question, one of the reasons why it should matter is because IE's failure to fall into line with every other browser maker and adhere to W3C standards is actually hampering the advancement of the Internet. And some people believe that they're actually doing it on purpose. Companies like Google are working on technologies that would see applications delivered over the Internet, with the eventual outcome being that you probably wouldn't need an operating system anymore which will obviously have a serious impact on Microsoft's core business.

What's ul1? It's not a valid tag. You're quite right about there being a lack of tutorials on how to combine image replacement rollovers with Suckerfish Dropdowns. I've been thinking or writing an article about it myself one day but haven't gotten around to it yet. Best I can do is point you towards an example I've done: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

That'll be 'poorly designed' sites that more than likely were only checked in IE. If Opera has trouble displaying a site then it's just as likely that Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, Camino etc will have the same trouble.

Except that it doesn't support all the W3C standards and that includes IE7.

But I've just come across an article that does propose a hack that will only target IE7: http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/xxx/

Why have you repeated news items?

It's hardly ever the browser and in this case it's certainly not, it's the designer's fault - no doctype, nested tables, made with MS Frontpage..... Internet Explorer doesn't follow the specs correctly so those people who design specifically for it can expect their pages to look messed up in more modern browsers.

Sure, check it out.

You can't do PHP includes with HTML. By the way Albus, your file doesn't have to have an .html extension, it can be whatever you want - .php, .asp, .txt, .inc. The page that calls the include, rather than the include separately is what gets parsed, so it doesn't matter what format the include is in.

IE7 will ignore the Holly Hack (* html ) but will recognise the child selector (like FF etc.) so it appears there will be no way of targetting IE7 specifically without the use of conditional comments and it also means that hacks intended for <= IE6 could break your layouts in IE7.The author says he 'hopes' that this usage will future-proof designs for IE7, but unfortunately (as of the current beta version), it doesn't.

I think you want to clear that statement up cos at the moment it sounds like you're saying you should change the file extension to .menu.

Do this instead: <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yahoo.com/;

Sportytalk's example could be improved further by using a switch/case statement instead of all the if elses.

Those high traffic sites aren't going to post an ad about your site for nothing - you're going to have to pay for it in one form or another.

Yeah, well unfortunately, it's kind of prerequisite to get good traffic.

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