Browser differences

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Browser differences

New site looks completely different?

Liane

3:52 am on Nov 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

I am trying to redesign an existing site for a friend and it looks great on IE (three different versions) but is totally screwed up on Netscape 4.0

Is this a common problem or have I screwed up?

(I am using an iMac and can never trust what I see on my screen) ... help!

Marshall

4:24 am on Nov 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

Liane,

No, it's not you, it's Netscape. There are several things which can affect a page's appearance in Netscape. First, if you use the DOCTYPE declaration, only use
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> .
If you use
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html4/loose.dtd">
Netscape 6 doesn't like the second line for some reason. Other problems can arise if you have an image in a cell. The coding has to be <td><img></td>. Don't put any returns or breaks. Netscape 4 also doesn't recognize much of CSS version 2 including margin settings. For that you must use marginheight="amount" and marginwidth="amount" in the BODY tag. There's other problems too. If you send me a sticky-mail with the URL, I will look at the page. Even if your HTML passes the W3C validator doesn't mean it will look good in Netscape.

Brett_Tabke

8:03 am on Nov 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

Best thing you can do Liane, is try to get the page to validate over at the w3c's validator. If you get the page to validate, after that, it is up to the browser to render it correctly or not.

hollowearth

10:20 am on Nov 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

Netscape 4 is pure evil. 4.0 is massively different from 4.7. I'm also seeing differences in font sizing (using %) between 6.0 and 6.2 . If netscape wants to work different to IE, i'm fine with that, but it would be nice if they actually worked consistantly...