I remember Joel once told a trick for scaled images to be displayed smoothly in IE:
img {-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;}
Which makes downsized images (with a smaller size than that of the actual image by CSS or HTML width property) smooth without looking rugged.
Is there any similar CSS rules for this to work across all major modern browsers such as Firefox and Chrome?
Is there any similar CSS rules for this to work across all major
modern browsers such as Firefox and Chrome?
No.
-ms-interpolation-mode is obsolete as of IE9. There is the image-rendering CSS property, but it is experimental and the supported values vary across the browsers. This SO question addresses best practices for the image-rendering property, which will cover most browsers, and you can even throw in the IE-specific tag for IE7 and 8, but later IE versions and certain combinations of browsers and upscale/downscale are not supported.
Obviously you can do something server-side to dynamically rescale images, and if you really need high quality that will be your best choice.
zoom:0-1; will scale just about anything.
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I have been trying to accomplish as much as possible without browser sniffing, but frankly I don't see how this one could be done with feature detection.
The site I am building has a global font difference in Firefox compared to the latest versions of Chrome and IE. Absolutely positioned content is overlapping and the font sizes are exactly similar.
Is there any way to deal with this without browser sniffing?
I'm building a pretty heavy J.Query website and, as always, it looks great in the modern browsers - but I am coming across all types of alignment issues in IE 6 & 7. More severely in IE 6. I'm working on building a conditional IE Style sheet for those browsers and am wondering - is there a way to align all divs with CSS? Can I permanently position everything to be, and stay center throughout all browsers and window sizes?
Ultimately; any suggestions on fixing margin issues that occur in older IE's? Stuff that looks great in modern browsers and pushed off to the right and top in IE 6 & 7. ..If the conditional is the inevitable route, what's a good way to start defining the parameters within?
are we talking horizontally or vertically?
Horizontally, the "margin:0px auto" should always center the div horizontally along the screen, so long as the width is set. This works for all browsers IE6+ i believe.
There's a pretty good forum here : http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/8003.htm
It sounds to me like your problem is that you have poorly written CSS. Certainly, IE6 has plenty of issues, but if you're seeing problems in other modern browsers, then your problems are with your CSS, not standards conformance.
If I were you, i'd just ignore IE6. It's down to less than 5% of the market (some surveys say as little as 2%). Just let it die.
As RCNeil says, using margin centering works with everything. If it's not working, then you have something else causing your problem and we can't possibly guess without seeing your page.
NOTE: in older versions of IE, if your document is being rendered in quirks mode, then you will have problems with auto margin. Make sure your document renders in standards mode.
Like my title says, my webpage which has a couple position:relatives that look perfect in google chrome and firefox are offset in safari.
Is there a way in my css to counter-act this offset? I'm not even sure why it's happening.
have you tried using a css reset?
by using a reset you can set the margins and padding of all elements to 0. 0 is the one number that all browsers agree on...from there you will have to add margins and padding to the elements but you should achieve a consistent look in different browsers
I am getting this display in IE 7
I am getting this display in Firefox:
for the following code
Could anybody point me, What I should do to make the IE Display simalar to Firefox and also, How Do I make the Size should be same for all the headings?
Internet Explorer does not support gradients, shadows, nor border-radius properties. border-radius is supported in IE9, but this won't be of much help!
You can look into CSS3 Pie, which uses IE-specific .htc files to achieve almost the same effect.
For now, if you really need to be fully compatible with all IE's (and other browsers for that matter) I'd use an image. It's not very nice but at least you can rest assured that it will always work ;-)
Rounded corners and drop shadow aren't going to work in IE7 without a lot of clever image tricks. You can't fix it through CSS alone.
Alternatively you could probably find a JavaScript plugin which would create these effects for you if you don't mind taking that route (see curvy corners for example).
I just noticed that Stack Overflow employs Firefox only CSS to round the corners of the user badges on the front page. It's an interesting idea but what would be the pitfalls and advantages of using Firefox only CSS (aside from the blatantly obvious ones)?
-moz-border-radius:6px;
-webkit-border-radius:6px;
Above: The CSS used to round corners on the Stack Overflow front page.
The main problem would be, as I see it, that your css wouldn't validate. Other than that I see no reason why not to use this type of platform specific features as they don't cause any harm to users whose browsers don't support the features.
The advantages are that it's much easier than using corner images or other tricks. The obvious disadvantage is that your page doesn't render as intended on IE, which is still used by more than half the world's web users.
Overall it's situational; I imagine SO gets a higher than usual proportion of people using Firefox, so the IE issue is not as relevant. And rounded corners are a minor visual improvement, so if some people see it and some don't, it's not that big a deal.
I agree with BeefTurkey.
I might even go further and call it a case of Progressive Enhancement with CSS. To borrow liberally from Understanding Progressive Enhancement, I'd consider rounded corners to be part of the colorful candy coating around the chocolate-covered peanut.
And eventually CSS3 will be ratified and border-radius will be standardized. -moz, -webkit and -ms prefixed styles can be removed and replaced with their standard equivalents. Your CSS will validate and people using browsers that don't support CSS3 will still have a completely acceptable experience with people using browsers that do support CSS3 will get an enhanced experience.
Alternatively you could continue to use the proprietary CSS in addition to any standards to give an enhanced experience to an even larger audience. It would really depend on how much effort maintaining all that CSS requires and how important you feel the enhanced experience is to your audience.
It works in Firefox and the Webkit-based browsers (notably Safari and Chrome). There are no alternatives for IE or Opera.
The main reason to use it is when you want to give rounded corners to elements that display on top of patterned or unpredictable backgrounds, which is not possible otherwise. Normal CSS and images can take care of other situations.
It's also ridiculously easy to implement and surely works for more than half the people on this site.
Pitfalls are of course that it's not supported in other browsers and its not in the W3C specification.
The current implementation is bad (both in firefox and webkit) since they do not share the syntax.