Designed for firefox

[Nik00117]

I was just wondering what oyu guys think of soley designing sites for firefox? I'm not aganist IE but i'm a new HTML guy and I perfer Firefox over all else. In fact I never noticed that my site looks like ****e in IE. So I simply went ahead and made sure it looked like I wanted it too in FF.

I then discovered that my site didn't look the same in IE. So i added a link that said "Best viewed in firefox!"

What are your guys opinions on this.

[Early Out]

The Google Analytics from my own most-visited site tell the story:

IE: 46.6%
FF: 44.1%

Unless you don't care about visitors, you can't afford to ignore the primary browser.

[Nik00117]

How would I go about correcting my IE errors? Biggest problem lies in the length of my website.

My site is www.ramsteinmilitarysales.com

[Early Out]

It's tough to say, since the code on that page contains a whole raft of HTML errors. Feed it into a validator like http://validator.w3.org/. That will give you a starting point for making corrections.

[Nik00117]

Ok, I am going to go through each page and correct the errors.

[Early Out]

It can be frustrating, since the "strict" doctypes are really, really picky about stuff! A lot of web page designers drop back to HTML 4.01 Transitional - it's probably easier to deal with. But getting stuff to validate is not a fun exercise. :(

[felgall]

Given that Opera, Safari, Chrome and several hundred other browsers also display web pages about the same way that Firefox does specifying Firefox rather than "standards compliant web browser" would not make any sense.

[bobdog]

IE can certainly cause problems when reading CSS.

I usually check IE and FF simultaniously during all of my design stages. Did I mention that IE is quirky with CSS?

Anyway, most of the sites I work on have a 70% or higher viewing in IE. Firefox at about 15%

[felgall]

IE prior to version 8 doesn't support CSS 2.1 properly. Most other browsers now support a good fraction of CSS 3. That's why a lot of CSS that works fine in modern browsers fails to work as well in outdated browsers such as IE8.

[Valdeam]

I can't stand the freakin tables and text being all misaligned when i look at pages on ie that im designing. However the vast majority of viewers for my sites and other sites ive seen are using IE.

Valdeam

[felgall]

Usually you just need a few tweaks to the CSS applied via a separate stylesheet using conditional comments to get IE6 and 7 to behave. Usually more for IE6 than for IE7.