On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Programming against specific browsers is like washing your eyes with chilli sauce. Nothing but grief can come of it. And contary to what someone has alleged above, WebKit and Gecko are not 100% compatible either.
I would encourage guys to program against JavaScript frameworks like JQuery or Ext JS where someone else has done the heavy lifting to make code and stylesheets work well across browsers including those you will invariably forget to test on like Opera
And what if I wanted to write my own JavaScript or CSS "framework"? You don't always need to use a framework. It all depends on what you're trying to do. Frameworks are simply libraries of stuff that you want to reuse in future. And solving the problems of browsers' non-compliance to standards aren't their only "use". The browser developers should just improve their compliance to standards (as many of them are doing), and not leave that job to others. Joseph.