padding in IE 5.1

I have some images with link in a row inside a <p> and I gave them a
left padding just to be sure they have some space between them.
It looks perfectly in FF, IE 6 and IE 5.5 but, in IE 5.1 it ignores
the padding and put all of them totally attached.
Is there a solution?

Thanks a lot,

Stefano

"stefano.troiani (AT) gmail (DOT) com" <stefano.troiani (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I have some images with link in a row inside a <p> and I gave them a
left padding just to be sure they have some space between them.
It looks perfectly in FF, IE 6 and IE 5.5 but, in IE 5.1 it ignores
the padding and put all of them totally attached.
Is there a solution?

IE 5.0/Win doesn't support padding on inline elements. Unless you have
reason to believe that your site's users use 5.0 in greater numbers than
usual I would recommend not trying to support it. Very few people use
it.

If you do want to support IE5.0, you could try setting the display
property to block or floating the images.

Ignore the above if you are referring to the Mac version of IE (I don't
know anything about it).

--
Spartanicus

Spartanicus wrote:

Ignore the above if you are referring to the Mac version of IE (I don't
know anything about it).

I don't know a whole lot, either, but Peter-Paul Koch does:

http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/explorer5mac.html
http://www.quirksmode.org/about/makingof.html#bugridden

"Tony" <tony23 (AT) dslextreme (DOT) com> wrote:

Ignore the above if you are referring to the Mac version of IE (I don't
know anything about it).

I don't know a whole lot, either, but Peter-Paul Koch does:

Who cares, it's a dead browser.

--
Spartanicus

In article
<155up1lfs13ibock9u68fog6vkv0vnbt87 (AT) news (DOT) spartanicus.utvinternet.ie>,
Spartanicus <invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote:

"Tony" <tony23 (AT) dslextreme (DOT) com> wrote:

Ignore the above if you are referring to the Mac version of IE (I don't
know anything about it).

I don't know a whole lot, either, but Peter-Paul Koch does:

Who cares, it's a dead browser.

I believe the screams for support for the thoroughly dead Mac version of
the IE browser come because people still using Macs that can't use OS X
basically don't have any modern browsers available. Given a March 2001
release of OS X, I guess another few years before the complaints are
mostly gone.

Alternatives to IE Mac for users of these fairly old Macintosh are
http://icab.de/ (version 3 of which is said to support standards based
sites any day now), and Mozilla 1.02
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.2.html

I suspect non-beta versions of iCab earlier than version 2.98 would be
fine on standards based sites, since it doesn't look at much CSS.

--
http://www.ericlindsay.com

Eric Lindsay <NOSPAmar2005 (AT) ericlindsay (DOT) com> wrote:

Ignore the above if you are referring to the Mac version of IE (I don't
know anything about it).

I don't know a whole lot, either, but Peter-Paul Koch does:

Who cares, it's a dead browser.

I believe the screams for support for the thoroughly dead Mac version of
the IE browser come because people still using Macs that can't use OS X
basically don't have any modern browsers available.

Supporting users who use dead and deficient browsers like NS4 and IE4
with regard to CSS is simple via for example the @import construct. IIRC
this also protects IE5/Mac. This reduces the need to know anything about
the awful CSS support in these browsers to nil.

--
Spartanicus

Spartanicus <invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> writes:

Eric Lindsay <NOSPAmar2005 (AT) ericlindsay (DOT) com> wrote:
I believe the screams for support for the thoroughly dead Mac version of
the IE browser come because people still using Macs that can't use OS X
basically don't have any modern browsers available.

Supporting users who use dead and deficient browsers like NS4 and IE4
with regard to CSS is simple via for example the @import construct. IIRC
this also protects IE5/Mac. This reduces the need to know anything about
the awful CSS support in these browsers to nil.

Afraid not. IE5/Mac understands @import and there are very few CSS
hacks that will hide on IE5/Mac that don't also hide on IE6/Win (if
you consider IE6/Win to be something other than dead and deficient). I
don't remember there being anything comparable to @import or similar
for hiding an entire file.

It does appear to be rapidly dying out as a browser from my web logs [1] -
Comparable number of hits to Konqueror.

[1] Usual disclaimers about horrible levels of inaccuracy
apply. Additionally, the 2:1 ratio of IE/other browsers suggests that
these results may not be entirely typical anyway.

--
Chris

Chris Morris <c.i.morris (AT) durham (DOT) ac.uk> wrote:

Supporting users who use dead and deficient browsers like NS4 and IE4
with regard to CSS is simple via for example the @import construct. IIRC
this also protects IE5/Mac. This reduces the need to know anything about
the awful CSS support in these browsers to nil.

Afraid not. IE5/Mac understands @import

The css filter table on centricle.com lists the @import construct with
single quotes around the file name/url as being applied by IE5+/Win, but
not by IE4, NS4 and IE5/Mac: <http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/>.
But the linked page that further describes the hack does not list the
single quote method:
<http://w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/import/>

--
Spartanicus