IE 6 is the odd man out?
I've been battling with Internet Explorer for weeks trying to get my homepage to show up "correctly". For some reason it chooses to ignore certain things which other browsers do not, such as "min-width", and is inconsistent with how it interprets "width" in the first place. The biggest problem is centering portions of the page when the window is smaller than the minimum width allowed. My page shows up how I want it to (I'm really not asking that much...) on Konqueror, Mozilla, Netscape, and whichever IE came with Windows ME years ago. As of now I've decided that I am going to not bother with trying to please IE anymore since my site is mostly intended for Linux users.
Is there some trick to writing HTML for IE which differs from "real" HTML? Is it even worth the effort of trying to get it to work? Here is my site, in case you'd like to see what I am talking about. Thanks. ta0kira |
you've just discovered that IE isnt standards compliant. that's why some sights look wierd in firefox - coz IE code has to be written differently to and recognised standard.
welcome to planet MS. just look at all the RFC docs they publish tho....:tisk: |
Well, it might help if you were actually using "real" HTML. The code on that page is a big mess that doesn't even come close to being valid. Frankly, I'm a little surprised it renders correctly in any browser. It's true that IE has lots of rendering bugs, but you don't have any business complaining about those until your code validates cleanly, which your page doesn't.
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By the way, IE 7 will include Mozilla (Firefox) Gecko rendering engine.
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surely not, how can that be legal under the GPL?
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No offense meant ta0kira but the colours and layout used are awful. By the way Im using firefox.
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IE was written with Frontpage specifically in mind for webpage design, and Frontpage is horribly out of compliance with standards, hence IE is out of compliance.
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I was fooled by someone I usually trust who relayed that fake news to me. I naively believe it after an uncareful web search found medias relaying it ... sorry about that. That said, Mozilla is indeed released under a non GPL License, if not Netscape wouldn't be allowed to release a non opensource browser derived from it. Technically, MS is also allowed to integrate some or all of Mozilla code in its browser. That would be a interesting move ... |
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As far as the errors, however, 99% are from , which is what Quanta uses. Then there are some errors which are in the frame added by GeoCities. In all, there are about 5 things that I legitimately did wrong, but hardly enough for the entire document to be considered invalid. By the way, a lot of that garbage wasn't in there originally; I added it because that is what it took for IE to show what I wanted. Quote:
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I'm afraid I have to agree with AdaHacker and dmail. Here are a few representative snippets from your web site:
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<script language="JavaScript">var PUpage="76001067"; ... ... that's really, really, REALLY good. Clear, simple, practical, to the point ... Written for absolute beginners (which I do not consider myself, nor necessarily you) ... And lots of good advice, interesting tidbits - and lots of Serious Wisdom - for people who ARE experienced with web technology ... but not necessarily experienced using XHTML and CSS. With all due respect, I highly recommend it: Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, 7th Edition", Dick Oliver, Michael Morrison http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0672328410 |
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as was said ie does not support the standards.. so to make it look good you will have to put in ugly hacks.. i usually offer a stripped down alternative page for ie users.. just make a stylesheet for ie users to load if the main one does not render correctly..
here is an interesting bit from a guy who did an excellent comparision on standard suporting browsers and ie.. http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/ |
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