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My new layout works perfectly in IE and only some pages work correctly in NS. The coding is the same from page to page and I've narrowed it down to image tags... in NS only some work correctly, and some cause the header, footer and starting container to completely disappear. If I hide all content images it works fine, if i show only one it works fine, if i show all the content images the main ones disappear leaving only the content containers. I had the css and html validated no problems! I've tried changing doctypes (my original is default:<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 3.2//en">). Still no luck, I need gurus help to define and fix problem. Please help!
NS ? Netscape ? That a dead and buried browser I'm afraid (speaking in market share terms, as well as in support from the makers).
Developing in IE isn't the approach most of us promote, let alone use.
The problem is that IE misleads you in the way it shows things due to broken aspects the browser has in rendering things. So why the CSS might validate, and might display in IE like you want it to do, it's by no means a guarantee (almost the opposite if it's a bit advanced) that what your CSS actually dictates the browsers to show is what you intended to have.
Best approach is to start in Firefox, Safari, Opera (pick your choice), once it works in those, switch to the different versions of IE and fix each of them where they deviate from the standard by using conditional comments.
Your next step to get help would be to minimize code into an example (make it short) making sure it still has your unexpected result and post the code here.
I've done that but it's in a zip file because the images are what's causing the problems. I have 2 pages exactly the same except text and images. Page 1 loads in both browsers, page 2 loads in IE, but in Netscape all main images disappear except for content images. How do I load the zip file?
If ittriggers the problem with other images of the same type and size you could just describe them (e.g. a gif of 640x480) Most of us are more than capable of generating images.
But in all honesty: I *never* consider netscape anymore these days, it's for all practical purposes replaced by mozilla and/or firefox.
AOL themselves gave up developing it a while ago.
But others might still test against it.
