i am going through the (nasty but spiritually rewarding) process of making
my sites standards compliant.. i can now get some pages on my site to
validate successfully as valid HTML 4.01 Strict and valid CSS..

the site looks great in IE5.5 and Oprah.. however, Netscrape 6 and Mozilla
0.9 both seem to screw it up somewhere.. don't even mention Netscape 4.x coz
i really don't care..

the problem is Netscape seems to be adding tons of padding (or something) to
tables, seemingly from absolutely nowhere.. check the following page for
example:

http://www.sineadandjohn.com/main.asp

the page renders "correctly" or, more accurately "as i would like and expect
it to" in IE 5.5 and Oprah.. however, NS 6 takes all my tables and adds
*loads* of padding, which makes it look very bloated and strange..

i find myself wondering what the "world's most standard's compliant browser"
is doing? is there a problem with my apparently valid HTML or CSS (apart
from the fact that it's messy ;) that causes this weirdness? does Netscape
just render badly and i have to live with it? what can i do to fix it
without breaking standards?

also, more specifically.. on that page i linked to above there's a box for
logging into a web-based e-mail service.. in IE it's centred but in NS and
Oprah it's left-aligned.. i'm assuming this is my mistake so can anyone tell
me why this is the case and what i can do to fix it without breaking
standards?

thanks for your time :)

stoo..



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