Firefox vs Explorer
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Firefox vs Explorer
Hi I am having trouble with building a site. It for some reason is not rendering the same in Firefox and Explorer, am I perhaps missing out on an important piece of code?
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for your help!
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It's one of the most annoying aspects of web development. Basically you'll have to learn how to develop HTML and CSS code that renders properly in both. There are loads of tutorials and resources around the internet about this very subject.
One thing that helps a lot is some "reset css" code ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ ... don't expect it to magically fix all your problems though.
One thing that helps a lot is some "reset css" code ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ ... don't expect it to magically fix all your problems though.
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Welcome to web developmentlauracj wrote:Hi I am having trouble with building a site. It for some reason is not rendering the same in Firefox and Explorer, am I perhaps missing out on an important piece of code?
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If you'd like some help, you can post a link and someone might be able to tell you what IE isn't liking!
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Re: Firefox vs Explorer
not entirely related but....
Ive always been a big fan of firefox, the only time IE ever gets launched on any of my computers is due to MSN launching it and ignoring my application preferences
However, ever since upgrading to FF3 ive had serious problems, which no-one else seems to be experiencing.
My Setup:
Windows 2000 SP4
P4 2.6ghz, 2Gb Ram
Firefox 3 crashes roughly once a day, sometimes more, and it needs a complete reboot, it doesnt 'stop responding' like other programs, it starts flashing non-stop, my task bar relocates itself to the top and all my icons disappear, meaning i need to hover over them for them to reappear, its firefox 3 causing this because when i 'blindly' click on the top right of the screen where the close icon is (not visible) my computer returns to normal, as soon as i relaunch firefox, it may do it again instantly or it may wait 5 / 10 minutes.
Its the worst crash ive ever seen and frustrating as hell
Ive always been a big fan of firefox, the only time IE ever gets launched on any of my computers is due to MSN launching it and ignoring my application preferences
However, ever since upgrading to FF3 ive had serious problems, which no-one else seems to be experiencing.
My Setup:
Windows 2000 SP4
P4 2.6ghz, 2Gb Ram
Firefox 3 crashes roughly once a day, sometimes more, and it needs a complete reboot, it doesnt 'stop responding' like other programs, it starts flashing non-stop, my task bar relocates itself to the top and all my icons disappear, meaning i need to hover over them for them to reappear, its firefox 3 causing this because when i 'blindly' click on the top right of the screen where the close icon is (not visible) my computer returns to normal, as soon as i relaunch firefox, it may do it again instantly or it may wait 5 / 10 minutes.
Its the worst crash ive ever seen and frustrating as hell
Re: Firefox vs Explorer
Its better to build sites for both FF and IE. As a user I like Firefox than IE.
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Re: Firefox vs Explorer
Internet Explorer because it's already pre installed but Mozilla has many advantages.They are Faster Browsing,Tabbed Browsing Press ctrl k to have several pages (tabs) open in same window,Use tabbed browsing to open multiple Web pages in a single browser window, and quickly flip back and forth. (ctrl t) and Improved Pop-up Blocking.
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Personally I prefer FF but when using my internet bank for example i use IE as FF doesn't work.
For web development/design I focus on making it look good in FF and IE but with more weight on IE as it's being used but more people.
For web development/design I focus on making it look good in FF and IE but with more weight on IE as it's being used but more people.
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The magic fix to 90% of Internet Explorer's problems: IECCSS.
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Having to test website in multiple Web Browsers is a fact of life for Web Developers. One tip is to use conditional comment blocks to have special IE only CSS rules. For example, on my website my CSS includes look like this:
As you can see, I have a separate set of styles for IE less than version 7. There are other hacks you can use to make your CSS apply only to IE, but this method allows you to stay standards compliant.
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" href="/includes/styles/final.screen.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" charset="utf-8" href="/includes/styles/final.print.css" />
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" href="/includes/styles/final.ie.css" />
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Yea I have had the same problem. Sometimes it looks correct in IE and sometimes in Firefox. Drives me nut. Wordpress is what I am using.
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trying to get sites working in firefox, IE and now Chrome is just a nightmare, although in my experience if it works in IE and Firefox, Chrome should work. Unfortunately there isn't an instant fix to this, we'll just have to wait for all the browsers to display the web standards in the same way.
I find that this tool can be useful, type in your domain and it will take a screen shot of your site in different browsers and different versions. you can't test functionality but you can see what other browsers are seeing.
http://browsershots.org/
it covers, Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD
I find that this tool can be useful, type in your domain and it will take a screen shot of your site in different browsers and different versions. you can't test functionality but you can see what other browsers are seeing.
http://browsershots.org/
it covers, Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD
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Maybe the stuff I'm doing is just too "vanilla" for words, but I'm doing all CSS1 things and everything I've done in FF has turned out to look just fine, and essentially identical, in IE. I'm not bragging, I'm actually just expressing amazement.
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Load up IE4 standalone and use nothing but pure CSS1 (must validate as CSS1 only) and you'll find IE4 and Opera4 will render exactly the same as Firefox 3 and Safari 3. Netscape 4 on the other hand...well maybe that is why some people still use tables for layouts?Bill H wrote:Maybe the stuff I'm doing is just too "vanilla" for words, but I'm doing all CSS1 things and everything I've done in FF has turned out to look just fine, and essentially identical, in IE. I'm not bragging, I'm actually just expressing amazement.
BTW my site works pretty decently for XHTML 1.0 Strict (1.1 as application/xhtml+xml by default) in Internet Explorer 4...all things considered.