> if your prepared to throw standards out the window and sometimes do
browser
> specific style sheets, you can get it looking 99% identical in all the top
> browsers (inc NC4.7)


To look identical, yes, you may have to do that.

But if all you want is for a page to "work" in every browser, standards are
the way to go. Take www.webstandards.org for instance. *Because* it uses
valid markup and CSS, its content is accessable in all browsers. Including
Mozilla, IE, NN4.x, Opera, Lynx, Palm Pilot browsers, screen readers, you
name it. A couple of browsers do have some CSS bugs that cause the menu to
be displayed off the screen (this is caused by the fact that the browser
meets the standard halfway; it would be better to ignore the CSS than to
interpret it incorrectly). But if you're going for 99% of the population to
be able to see your site, standards are what you want to use.

Of course, the page won't look identical in every browser. But what's more
important - the visual apperance of the page or the content on it? The site
will look *decent* in most browsers. In all browsers, the content will be
accessable.

Another benefit is that the site is more accessable to handicapped users,
such as someone using a screen reader or something of the sort.

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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