Ask HN: Browser specific CSS Or X-browser compliant design?

1 pointsatyajit3 comments

Do you guys write - browser specific CSS? Or - make your design cross-browser compliant?

Today, I am quite please to note that FF adoption has reached equal percentage as of IE6+7+8. See the link below. Can we safely ignore retrofitting the app to IE6? I am just trying to weigh the ROI of effort.

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You might also want to consider whether today's "browser specific" will be tomorrow's browser-specific. For example: there was no Google Chrome a year ago. Nor Safari for Windows.

But be ready to add style sheets for mobile devices. ...or whatever evolves next.

Browser stats link: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

As they note below the tables, their statistics are skewed compared to most sites. Most sites will see most users using Internet Explorer, with Firefox a distant second.

And even on their figures, more than 1 in 6 visitors use IE6. That's a lot of people to drop support for.

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