Web Browser Compatibility

[Guest]

After getting some friends to check out my site for feedback I have realised
people using Internet Explorer have no problem viewing my site but using
Mozilla my site did not compute.

Is there a setting in FP I need to choose so that my site can be viewed
using any internet browser?

Shelle

 

[Andrew Murray]

You're using VML, absolute positioning & layers judging by the code; these
do not work too well in other browsers, and the cause problems you've
identified; I can't get the site to load in Firefox.

Try using tables to position objects and for general layout (rather than
absolute positioning, layers & text boxes)

You'll have to probably redo the whole site unfortunately.

 

[Andrew Murray]

For maximum compatibility, don't use absolute positioning or layers; these
work well (sort of) in IE but are unpredictable or useless in other
browsers.

 

[fido]

After getting some friends to check out my site for feedback I have realised
people using Internet Explorer have no problem viewing my site but using
Mozilla my site did not compute.

Is there a setting in FP I need to choose so that my site can be viewed
using any internet browser?

Hi, Shelle

It's difficult to say how your page will display because the images do
not appear.

I am using Firefox 1.5 RC3 and I can see a black page with five
missing images. The browser is looking for images in a directory
called 'index_files' and is unable to find it or its contents.

Opera 8.51 sees a black page and makes no attempt to display missing
images.

That said, the page does display as intended in IE.

As for a setting in FP, I don't know, but there are times when FP
seems to deliberately go out of its way to make the simplest task as
complicated as possible.

Use tables for layout and lose the absolute positioning if you want
more standards-compliant browsers to display your page correctly.

Your logo image is 983 pixels wide, which is too wide to guarantee its
appearance on many users' screens without introducing a horizontal
scrollbar. For safety, keep the width down to 760px maximum.

fido

 

[Bill]

You are using conditional comments. Only IE recognizes conditional comments - every
other browser ignore it.

 

[Murray]

these work well (sort of) in IE but are unpredictable or useless in other

browsers.

Baloney....

That's just utter nonsense. Absolute positioning and layers are as reliable
and predictable as any page element in any v5+ browser. It's the people
using them that are unreliable and unpredictable.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

It's more fun blaming it on the viewer!

Grumpy today?


|> these work well (sort of) in IE but are unpredictable or useless in other
| > browsers.
|
| Baloney....
|
| That's just utter nonsense. Absolute positioning and layers are as
reliable
| and predictable as any page element in any v5+ browser. It's the people
| using them that are unreliable and unpredictable.
|
| --
| Murray
| ============
|
| | > For maximum compatibility, don't use absolute positioning or layers;
these
| > work well (sort of) in IE but are unpredictable or useless in other
| > browsers.
| >
|
|

 

[Murray]

LOL - just on a quest to stomp out urban legends.... 8)

 

[Bill]

Baloney....

That's just utter nonsense. Absolute positioning and layers are as reliable
and predictable as any page element in any v5+ browser. It's the people
using them that are unreliable and unpredictable.

Completely correct!

 

[Guest]

You are using conditional comments. Only IE recognizes conditional comments - every
other browser ignore it.



Can anyone please help me with my Browser Compatibility problem: after running the check the report displays the message that in INTERNET EXPLORER 5.0 both the "attribute color" and "attribute size" is not permitted for the B,I and U tags and TAG <TR7> can not contain a TAG <SCRIPT> The report states that 1136 compatibility problems were found in 5 pages. I understand that this has to do with my (thumbnail) photo gallery, but beyond that it is a complete mystery to me.

All my pages, including photo galleries, work perfectly with Firefox,
Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape browsers when using FP Previewing function
Please help, I will acknowledge receipt of all replies! Thanks, Raymond