Netscape and absolute positiong

[Guest]

I look at my finished pages in both IE and Netscape 7. If a page looks ok on my Netscape browser, is it likely to look ok in all everyone else's, too? The one I am most concerned about is http://www.kathyannscottage.com/draftstoppers.html because I copied it right from my old Geocities location, where I never did learn to make tables, and haven't learned tables in FP yet either, having only had it a week. I hope it's a lot like Trellix because that's the one I know.

 

[Guest]

I also need to figure out why font sizes are different in IE vs Netscape, specifically along my nav bar. Anyone run into this yet?

 

[Steve H]

You cannot assume it will look OK in every other browser.
They have different standards.

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I look at my finished pages in both IE and Netscape 7. If

a page looks ok on my Netscape browser, is it likely to
look ok in all everyone else's, too? The one I am most
concerned about is
http://www.kathyannscottage.com/draftstoppers.html because
I copied it right from my old Geocities location, where I
never did learn to make tables, and haven't learned tables
in FP yet either, having only had it a week. I hope it's a
lot like Trellix because that's the one I know.

 

[Guest]

Perhaps I need to clarify. I am asking, if it looks ok in Netscape7 on my computer, will it look ok in Netscape 7 on other peoples' computers. If I have netscape 7 and you also have Netscape 7, doesn't that mean we both use the same browser? Also is there a way to optimise for the viewer, no matter what browser they use? This seems awfully proprietary to me. Congratulations to Microsoft if you can afford to exclude customers based on what system they own. I can't.

 

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| Perhaps I need to clarify. I am asking, if it looks ok in Netscape7 on my computer, will it look ok in Netscape 7 on other peoples' computers. If I have netscape 7 and you also have Netscape 7, doesn't that mean we both use the same browser?

No. Still depends on the viewers monitor resolution, and what fonts they have installed on their machine.


You can try. We all do, but there are so many variables it can get pretty complicated. Most people design for the most commonly used browsers, and make compromised for most commonly used monitor resolution settings...ah...and then we have monitor gamma (won't get into that spider web right now)


Has nothing to do with Microsoft excluding customers.

 

[Wayne Moses]

Kathy, you are on the right track. If it looks okay in Netscape 7 on your
machine then it will look okay on anyone else's machine using Netscape 7.

Moreover, when you develop your web pages, you must test in *both* MSIE and
Netscape and they sometimes interpret HTML coding differently, and features
implemented in FP and understandable by MSIE, could be foreign to Netscape.
That is why it is important to set your compatibilities carefully in FP ...
and still check.

It has been my experience over the years that Netscape is a bit more
faithful to HTML standards, and is a bit more 'rigid', in displaying your
coding efforts according to those standards. This can be a plus or it can be
a drawback. I have always used the Netscape as a test to make sure I am
implementing the HTML syntax properly.
--

Wayne Moses
MS FrontPage 2003
MS Windows XP Home
Apache Server on RedHat Linux

Perhaps I need to clarify. I am asking, if it looks ok in Netscape7 on my

computer, will it look ok in Netscape 7 on other peoples' computers. If I
have netscape 7 and you also have Netscape 7, doesn't that mean we both use
the same browser? Also is there a way to optimise for the viewer, no matter
what browser they use? This seems awfully proprietary to me. Congratulations
to Microsoft if you can afford to exclude customers based on what system
they own. I can't.

 

[Wayne Moses]

Font sizes are sometimes different and also font types, especially within
cells of tables if the cell properties respecting fonts are not set.

Regarding font sizes -- each browser has the ability to size text in their
displays external to the web page specification, i.e. in View | Text Size
(MSIE) and View | Text Zoom (Netscape).
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Wayne Moses
MS FrontPage 2003
MS Windows XP Home
Apache Server on RedHat Linux

I also need to figure out why font sizes are different in IE vs Netscape,

specifically along my nav bar. Anyone run into this yet?