Are you still designing for ie5.+?

[deronsizemore]

I'm not and was just curious as to everyone else's thoughts.

Seems that I've been mistaken in that I thought IE6 had all kinds of box model problems when applying padding/margins to a container with a static width. As it turns out (I didn't know) that in standards mode, IE6 will render the same as other standards compliant browsers and you don't need to worry about messing things up when applying padding/margins to a container with a static width. IE5.+ is the only one that has problems with it.

When coding a site I was using all these work arounds for the box model and didn't need to be. :)

[ses5909]

I don't even test it in IE 5.* at all. I usually just test IE 6 & 7, FF 2.+, opera, and now Safari for windows.

[davemcnally]

I dont test for it so there's not much point in designing for it either. I don't know of anyone that actually uses it.

I know people still do but numbers are low enough for me not to worry too much about it.

[deronsizemore]

Yeah, I agree. It's something like only 1.7% of people using it or something according to w3schools. Don't know how accurate that is.

I only wish I had known what I outlined in my original post earlier. Would have saved me a bunch of headaches with trying to work around the box model by applying padding/margins to children elements instead of their parents which also had a static width.

[kingjacob]

Nope, I just have a banner that pops up for IE<6 that says get firefox. I code for FF and the will text in IE because theres always usually an error in IE thats not in FF