Forum:IE vs. Firefox: colour issues

I am in the middle of the task of revamping the colour theme and general look of The Ice Hockey Wiki, working on IE to lay a new design for the wiki. My problem is, Firefox users are now telling me things look totally unreadable for them on their browser, while on mine it is not. So I'd like to know, is there a way to code the Monobook.css page so that IE users have a set of colours and Firefox users have theirs, that would be equivalent and make everyone look at the same thing? In other words, is there a line I can use that would allow me to make a colour theme only for Firefox users (a theme that would be slightly different than the basic one for IE and "correct" the colour variation)? --Yannzgob 00:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * here's a few hints: 1) use hex color codes instead of named colors, 2) don't use dark text with a dark bg, 3) get firefox so you can test on both (note to other editors: this is not a browser war thread. do not state which one is better and whatnot, only provide useful comments that would help with the issue currently at hand). However, it generally is best to only use attributes that are common across browsers, staying away from browser-specific rules. --Skizzerz talk 01:26, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I work on my personnals web sites every weeks and i always have Firefox just for testing and i set CSS for the differents flavor of IE when necessairy. I must admit that i use IE7 on the everyday basis but i always "design" web sites (or wiki pages) so they look almost exactly the same in both browsers. And some years ago, i had even more browsers installed just to test thing in. I've gotten a tad lazy...


 * That said, i found weird when you say that both browser dont show the sames colors. Maybe you have error in your CSS and because Firefox is more respectfull of goods standards, it's ignoring the bad code while IE... well, IE is IE... — TulipVorlax 01:52, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh! And i've forgot to confirm that there's only a subset of the named colors that are supported by both browsers. I could adivse to get the free copy of TopStyle (TopStyle Lite, download link at bottom). This tool help doing good CSS. I use it a lot. — TulipVorlax 01:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the replies. I've installed Firefox to see for myself what the others saw and found out that virtually none of the changes I made to the css file showed in Firefox - the only changes to be seen are those I made to the article pages directly to fit the new colour scheme, and of course, they don't blend in too well with the default style. Colours choosen were in hex values. Chances are there is an error in my script, after all, I'm extremely far from proficiency with css. I'll try TopStyle, hopefully I can make something work well with it. Thanks again. --Yannzgob 19:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you changed anything yet ? I just went on it to take a look and for me, it looks almost the same on both Firefox and IE7 (i dont have others IE flavors at the moment). The dark grey background is a tad different but it's readable on both, i think. Must like that type of coloring though. ;-) — TulipVorlax 02:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)