Progression of Design — over the years.

US Government Organization Manual covers — from 1940 to 2001. I found them inspiring to see how design, even governmental design, has grown over the years.

browser wars: the tables battle.

I’m SOOOO used to my pages not looking the exact same between IE and Firefox, with IE usually being the loser. However, I have come across one (1!!!) issue that is the opposite. And it’s all about the tables. Eek.

• First it’s tabulated data. Just clearing that up.
• This is another reason for doing more in CSS than I currently do, and WHY I should do it.
• Yay – you get to see screenshots of my multiple tabs obsession…

table in ie 7

It’s a shocker. This is how I want the table to look. I do not want the outdated shadows on here. And I design with Dreamweaver, and I confess, it’s soo easy to just input the little details in the Properties manager and ta-da! Honestly, anything to make my job easy, less of a hassle (to explain to others why this one page took 2 hours to build, minus the data). And I’m one of those weirdoes who prefer no “hacks” into my webpages.

table in firefox 2

oh, snarfblatt.

Another reason for this post is that there didn’t seem to be enough discussions on this issue when I tried to google it. (I might not have had the right combination of search terms.) Anyway.

The answer lies in good CSS. I should have known – it always does. It also has to do with the fact that Firefox does not support border color (discussion: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=228844&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a).

So, I deleted my terrible html code like a good web girl:

<table border="1" cellpadding="2"
cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#a8907c">

And wrote the following in CSS (and played a little):

table {border: thin solid #A8907C;}
th {border: medium solid #4f4638;}
td {border: thin solid #A8907C;}

So now, the results are in.

firefox table in css

ie table in css

Firefox wins.

Ha ha!

avatars from italia…

from faceyourmanga.it … pretty neat…

Jonathan Gale Sayer

ok — i lost part of the name game, but it’s ok.

 http://www.cradleroll.com/default.aspx?navid=18&babyid=3679

Jonathyn, Jonathan… he’s still a cutie.

–w

browser wars — still at it…

found this on a designer’s website. Loved how they incorporated their browser preference within their website design.

And, it didn’t look TOO different from ie and firefox… in my opinion.