I am developing a website, and i just decided to check it out in IE (I normally use FF), to make sure it was working ok.
I nearly died when i saw it.
http://195.97.193.36/chrisc/index.php
Can anyone tell me by looking at the source what IE hates about the page? I cant find anything. But then again, im not exactly the most experienced web designer.
Yay! *hugs* it works now. ty!
ahem...
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besides the Home being centered in IE and not in firefox it looks good.
Now make it pass some more =P
I fixed the centering issue, it seems to not like carrying CSS classes into included files.
God I hate IE
I've still had compaitibility issues using strict xhtml.
It's best to use multiple rendering engines every step of the way. I use IE, Firefox, Opera, IE for mac and Safari because these are the 5 major rendering engines out there. Usually, if you can get it to look good in Firefox and IE, Opera and Safari will follow suit, except for minor tweaks.
Camino, Mozilla, Maxthon, Netscape, K-meleon, Konquerer, Atlantis and Webcore all use some form of the above rendering engines. I usually don't care if it's not perfect on IE mac, as such a desire is like chaining an overturned car to your back and trying to run a marathon.
There are also many important tricks to remember when trying to produce cross-compatible webpages. For instance, when using the "float" attribute, always declare "display: inline" or else IE will pad the margin 15-20 pixels. Also be sure to watch how you stack block level elements because mozilla likes to put a big fat top margin on them, and be very careful when using the border attribute on fixed or percentage width elements, as mozilla draws them inword and IE draws them outward. Dont' use recent technologies like x-forms or mathml or activex or xslt until they're widely supported on all browsers, etc.
If IE was the w3c standard nobody would care. Hating Internet Explorer is no excuse to produce a webpage that only looks right on 10% of computers.
Good tips, Jofers.
Although I cant really justify the need for getting safari, mozilla and opera as well just to test =P
Quote:Hating Internet Explorer is no excuse to produce a webpage that only looks right on 10% of computers.
Was that directed at me? I never said i wasnt striving to make it IE compatible.
Please forgive any perceived implications. It was a tip from my general stash of web design rules, not really directed at anyone.
Opera has a 2% presence, and promises to be very active as a packaged browser solution for portable devices. Safari is the browser of choice amongst Macintosh users, and powers the browser of choise amongst KDE users (Konquerer). As both Linux and Mac users are on the rise, it's a worthy bargain for a few extra minutes of your time. But hey, it all depends on how important the convenience of 5% of your audience is to you. Me, I've obviously stated my preference
Quote:....amongst KDE users (Konquerer)....
We can safely neglect Konqueror for now. Most people using GNU/Linux simply use Mozilla/Firefox
Mozilla under linux works ok most of the time, but I'm having problems with this site. Code boxes show using a non-fixed width font. I dunno how to solve that.