StOo wrote:
> 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..
>
>
>
You say Mozilla adds "padding"? I see no padding at all in Mozilla's
nightly from 6/01, but I see padding in IE6. Go figure I'd get opposite
results
