Style compatability with older browsers

[smilingslightly]

Can anyone point me to some resources for making one's style play well with older browsers? Is there an open community that I've missed where it's appropriate to discuss style tips and tricks?

I'm using a Mixit-based theme that, I've been told, is unreadable in some older browsers. I'd like to continue using the style but I'd also like to make it easier for people to read what I post. (And here I want to express my thanks to the Dw folks for putting those style=mine links in the nav bar to facilitate just that.)

I'm a style n00b. Though I've played with CSS on websites, I'm still finding LJ-type style code seriously confusing.

Comments

[adalger]

The issue, largely, is that older browsers tend to not handle CSS properly, and most of the theme and layout work is done with CSS applied properly. I'm afraid this isn't very optimistic news; if you really want to play well with older browsers, you'll have to strip out a lot of CSS that is improperly handled by them, or resort to arcane trickery and browser-sniffing.

[smilingslightly]

older browsers tend to not handle CSS properly

Oh, yeah, I definitely get that. But it appears - and I don't have a copy of IE6 or FF1 to check this myself - that the style I'm using is degrading far less well than many others. If that is indeed the case, I'm hoping for a way to make my style play at least as nicely as the average theme.

Much to my surprise, it looks like unpaid accounts can still play around with customized styles so maybe I can just figure it out via trial and error. Still, if someone else has been there done that, it would sure help. ;)

[adalger]

Gotcha. I don't think there's really much you can do besides digging heavily into the system and ripping out all the stuff IE6 & FF1 choke on.