Designing for IE - You're probably doing it backwards
Tuesday August 29, 2006
Since Internet Explorer is one of the most popular Web browsers out there right now, many designers are designing their Web pages for it. Of course, there is also the desire to design your Web pages for the standards compliant browsers like Firefox, Safari, and Opera, but chances are you are going about your design methodology backwards to how it can be most efficiently done. In a nutshell - leave IE until last.
Comments
Your suggestion about designing for I.E. last is right on the money. I have no where near the design training and experience you do, but in designing the original web page for our environmental education group (Carbon County Groundwater Guardians, www.carbonwaters.org) I was constantly checking the page in all the browsers I had access to, which included, I.E. 6, Firefox 1.0, Opera, Netscape, and Safari and I.E. on Mac OSX. The present site is not my design. Since generally I.E. is the most forgiving of poor coding, if you can please the others, I.E. will generally take it as well.
Keep the suggestions coming.
Wow it’s great using IE.Good amount of information listed in this article on it.