Is it good to use bullet image inplace of browser default bullets for UL to get cross browser result?

Is it good to use bullet image inplac开发者_运维百科e of browser default bullets for UL to get cross browser result?

Unless it's a very stylized/graphics heavy site, I'd say no. Users don't expect your webpage to have any particular look/feel...but they do expect it to be familiar and intuitive. If you have a completely different theme and a completely custom look, then yes, go for it. If you don't...let the user see what they're used to seeing.

Example: Checkboxes look different on different browsers, but 99% of the time, the same to the user that's always using that browser on their computer. Now using images/javascript to change what those checkboxes look like is slightly jarring, because they're suddenly unfamiliar.

If you're totally immersed in a different environment anyway (example: lots of graphics, black background, etc) then make your styles on anything fit that...for the standard-ish looking webpage that's very light on styles, I'd let the browser defaults prevail.

Well, if you are using list-style-image:url(), then you pretty much enter a world of pain, since different browsers will position the image differently. If, however, you're using background images + padding, then you can indeed get consistent cross-browser results at almost no cost.