CSS Browser Compatibility

August 28, 2008

There is a great challenge for CSS Web Designer, that will be the CSS compatibility with browsers. This is due to some browser introduces their own CSS set which is not a common CSS recognized by all browsers. And some browsers is though claiming itself as web browsers but it does not even support all common CSS. May be budget issue or the developer does not have the skills to code into their browser to support it.

The one I respect most is the browser which are able to support all common CSS and do have its own additional set of CSS which enhances the web design for a neat and well organised look.

The one I will look down will be the browser which does not support all common CSS and ignoring web user requests by just telling the user that “This is xxx browser propriety which we do not support”. This is some how ridiculous. When a user giving this feed back, this means that this feature is usefull and the userĀ are expecting that this CSS can be supported. Of course, if one or two users requesting, then it is not a commonly required. But if there is thousands or even millions requests, they should consider to do so rather than giving crap reason.

To be most benefits to users, an agreement or a body should be form to make sure that all the browser do support on all the CSS available no matter it is a proprietary or non-proprietary CSS. This is to make sure there is a standard are met.

Well, human is a very self fish creature where they reserved the best for themselves. This has drag down the unity of human world wide.

Enough for crap talking, below are some CSS that I have found which is having compatibility issue among browsers. I will update more when I came accross more:

Style Internet Explorer Firefox
word-wrap All No