How to syncronize site with Firefox, explorer, Opera, safari

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sharky
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How to syncronize site with Firefox, explorer, Opera, safari

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I'm building an e commerce site. I'm using firefox as client tester. Did not realize that when I tested it with explorer (my friends laptop), my site has lotsa things not balanced. For instance, the images are losing their pixels in exlorer/safari and even Opera. But Firefox stays fine. Is there any code where I can insert to syncronize my site?
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Post by matthijs »

Well, developing a website in a modern browser like Firefox is a good start. But as you've experienced, opening another browser, especially Internet explorer, can be a shock.

There are no automatic scripts which will "synchronize" your site for you. You will have to find out why IE is messing stuff up and delve into the code (css?) to see if you can find a solution. For many IE (and other browser) related bugs, see http://www.positioniseverything.net.

If you have a specific problem, post links to your site or a testsite and explain the problem. I'm sure many people here can help figure things out.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of web design... and Microsoft Internet Explorer (AKA satan :twisted: ).
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is it OK if I paste the link or my website here?
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Posting links to websites discussed in Client Side forum is perfectly ok.
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Post by sharky »

ok then ::

Let me know if there's something wrong in explorer, firefox, opera, etc. Does everything got to do with the reaseon I'm using a mac for my work?

http://www.hitech-cell.com
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Post by Roja »

sharky wrote:ok then ::

Let me know if there's something wrong in explorer, firefox, opera, etc. Does everything got to do with the reaseon I'm using a mac for my work?

http://www.hitech-cell.com
No, a bit part of the problem is that you aren't using compliant HTML or CSS:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1 ... ell.com%2F
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/vali ... ell.com%2F

In a nutshell, you are telling browsers "Hey, this is a webpage, and it follows the rules of webpages", and then you proceed to give them code that breaks lots of the rules, and they each have to guess what the right way is to display it.

Different browsers guess differently.

If you fix the errors, so the code follows the rules, then there is a much better chance that the browsers wont guess, and will all display it the same.
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