Firefox Incompatability With FrontPage 2002

K

k9drum

I have had FrontPage 2002 on my computer for many years, but generally I
just use it for little things. I've always noticed that the pages look
perfect in IE, but are COMPLETELY DISTORTED in Firefox. Is there anything I
can do to make the pages appear correctly in Firefox? (Would I have this
same issue if I used Dreamweaver? Or is it just proprietary to Microsoft?)

See page: http://home.avenuecable.com/~mzmark/fohm/index.htm

When I tried validating the page, it had 12 errors, including !DOCTYPE.
Which is how I found your site.
 
S

Steve Easton

No doctype is not a MSFT issue, it's an issue with all browsers,
Not having a doctype in your page forces "all" browsers to render the page in Quirks mode.

IE, for as much as people bash it, normally renders pages quite nicely in Quirks mode.
Problem is, that you don't see the errors.

You need to add a doctype to your page, at the very top, "Above " the opening <html> tag.
Looking at the source for the page, the following doctype should work:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">


Then try validating the page and fix any errors found.

--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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