Problem with conditional ie5 stylesheet

[andrew]

Hi,

I have written a brief conditional stylesheet to center the main div
of:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html

in ie5. It works well but tables are _still_ aligned left in ie5. The
css is:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/ie5.css

or placed here:

body { text-align: center;}
#content { width:90%; text-align: left; }
table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;text-align: center;}
td {text-align: left;}

It is a small but irritating problem that I would be grateful to have
solution for! I suspect that I am missing something small but
important.

Andrew

--
"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.

[dorayme]

In article <sl*******************@ilium.invalid>,
andrew <an****@ilium.invalidwrote:

Hi,

I have written a brief conditional stylesheet to center the main div
of:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html

in ie5. It works well but tables are _still_ aligned left in ie5. The
css is:

http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/ie5.css

or placed here:

body { text-align: center;}
#content { width:90%; text-align: left; }
table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;text-align: center;}
td {text-align: left;}

It is a small but irritating problem that I would be grateful to have
solution for! I suspect that I am missing something small but
important.

Andrew

I have not got IE5 but perhaps adding "width:32.5em;" to the
table css might help? Let me know if it works.

(btw missing space in table summary: "Type of equipmentand costs
for the Dapper computer")

--
dorayme

[Bergamot]

andrew wrote:

>
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html

tables are _still_ aligned left in ie5.

Both Win and Mac IE 5.x are dead browsers with a minuscule share of the
market. Why waste time trying to get them to render comparably to better
browsers? As long as the content is still usable, the rest isn't that
important. Don't lose any sleep over minor cosmetic differences.

--
Berg

[Windsun]

Why bother with IE5?

It has like 1/3 of 1% at most of the browsers.

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Hi,

[andrew]

On 2007-08-03, Bergamot <be******@visi.comwrote:

andrew wrote:

>>
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html

tables are _still_ aligned left in ie5.

Both Win and Mac IE 5.x are dead browsers with a minuscule share of the
market. Why waste time trying to get them to render comparably to better
browsers? As long as the content is still usable, the rest isn't that
important. Don't lose any sleep over minor cosmetic differences.

After thinking about it overnight, my favourite strategy, I can see
that you are of course perfectly correct :-) In fact the content _is_
perfectly usable in ie5 and the simple conditional css makes it a
little prettier _without_ further tweaking. And of course the page(s)
are meant for content not beauty.

Thanks for your advice,

Andrew

--
"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.

[dorayme]

In article <sl*******************@ilium.invalid>,
andrew <an****@ilium.invalidwrote:

On 2007-08-03, Bergamot <be******@visi.comwrote:

andrew wrote:

>
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html

tables are _still_ aligned left in ie5.

Both Win and Mac IE 5.x are dead browsers with a minuscule share of the
market. Why waste time trying to get them to render comparably to better
browsers? As long as the content is still usable, the rest isn't that
important. Don't lose any sleep over minor cosmetic differences.

After thinking about it overnight, my favourite strategy, I can see
that you are of course perfectly correct :-) In fact the content _is_
perfectly usable in ie5 and the simple conditional css makes it a
little prettier _without_ further tweaking. And of course the page(s)
are meant for content not beauty.

Thanks for your advice,

God help me Andrew! Or God bless your innocence. I'll think hard
on the difference deep into tonight.

Bergamot is a cold hearted bastard who always looks at the main
chance, the way ahead, the majority, the main game. Follow not
such lights, my son. Bend to listen to the little people, the
sick and the poor, the lonely, the uninfluential individuals.
Like Mac IE, Netscape 4, Win IE 3 and so on. How the hell would
you feel if you were those browsers and just ignored completely?

No, I say unto you, bend down and attend to them as if they were
thy children...

--
dorayme

[Bergamot]

dorayme wrote:

>
Bergamot is a cold hearted bastard who always looks at the main
chance, the way ahead, the majority, the main game.

You don't know me at all.

Mac IE, Netscape 4, Win IE 3 and so on. How the hell would
you feel if you were those browsers and just ignored completely?

If you paid attention, you'd notice what I said about being usable
regardless of cosmetic differences. How is that being ignored? Besides,
you can be assured that anybody still using those browsers has already
run into plenty of unusable sites. It isn't likely to be one of mine,
though.

--
Berg