[UPHPU] Validation

[Tyler Gee]

> And I'll disagree (kind of) with the disagreement - while in "theory"
> standards and CSS is the way to go, in practice the CSS browser
> implementations still leave a lot to be desired.  Last year I drank the
> CSS koolaid and spent a whole weekend converting our website to being
> CSS based - looked great in my Firefox.  Then Monday someone called and
> said they couldn't read my webpage (in IE).  When I checked it out on
> someone's Window's machine, it was unreadable and looked like crap (I
> used stronger terms then).  I had to scrap all the work and go back to
> nested tables.   One option is to just tell all your users that your
> website runs best in Firefox.   But until most browsers are compliant,
> your choice is to either keep it simple or test like heck.    Whatever
> works for you is great.   But before anyone else jumps into using CSS,
> they should know it's likely they will have to spend hours testing on
> various browsers and doing lots of tweaking.   The firefox plug-in
> looked really interesting and I'll download it tonight.  I'm just trying
> to save other people from suffering the same frustration and time cost.
> I've seen beautiful websites done with CSS so the time might be worth it
> - just know it in advance.

Developing with standards and css can certainly create hassles.  The
trick is that you *must* check all your work in IE as you go along
rather than try to do it all after the fact.  Plus, while there some
tweaks required, you get to learn them real quick and then you just
develop them in from the beginning.

But, like Jonathan is saying, it's my job too and I have developed
countless websites with full standardization in xhtml and css and they
work perfect on all browsers, so it can definitely be done.

-- 
~Tyler