This comment leads me right to my last
table example, which only Safari and Firefox are capable of displaying
exactly as I intend, but which all other browsers make an acceptable
job of displaying.
Most People Only Use One Browser at a Time
Something that frequently happens to me is that one of the designers I am
working with shows me something that looks OK in, say, IE6, and then says
???But look how much better it looks in Firefox! What will people say???? My
answer is ???Nothing!??? People who see the site in IE6 aren??™t looking at it in both
IE6 and Firefox. Only geeks like us do that. As long as the site looks OK to
IE6 users, with nothing obviously broken, they have no idea what they are
missing. My point: Don??™t obsess about getting everything to look exactly the
same in every browser??”it can??™t be done, and only you know how ???perfect???
actually looks.
In this next table layout, which for obvious reasons I call tic-tactoe,
the outer edges of outer cells of the table do not have borders
on them. It doesn??™t matter how many rows and columns the table
has??”the outer edge cells don??™t have outer borders, but all the inner
cells have borders on all four sides. I??™ve duplicated the table cells in
the markup in both directions so you can see the effect better. The
?¬? nal styling is shown in Figures 6.8 and 6.
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