On Wednesday 14 November 2001 16:02, JWright wrote: | The sacrificing of small furry animals couldn't hurt... | | Designing (or dumbing down) to make something usable in netscape as well | as msie, is not unlike voodoo and witchcraft... except that voodoo and | witchcraft have time tested instructions you can follow for expected and | consistent results...
You should follow W3C standards, and frankly speaking, you will get rather good level of compatibility between Netscape6 and MS IE6. Just be sure that you have HTML4 Strict Doctype in your HTML pages (and that your page are *valid* HTML4 Strict) Of course, MS IE5 is far away from being perfect, but hey: it's still better than Netscape Navigator 4.7. | | well, okay, maybe theyre not alike at all... lotsa luck to you! | | And keep your meds handy. | | Jeffery Wright | Parker Hannifin Corporate Communications | New Media Specialist | | 2Bees Internet Solutions wrote: | > I would like to get some information about programming html the right | > way, so its correctly displayed in netscape! There are many differences | > between netscape and explorer and don't want that only people with | > explorer can watch the page. | > | > First example: i have a table with a background picture. Inside that | > table i have some collums or another table. In netscape the background | > is keeps repeating the background in all the new collums and tables in | > explorer not. Short advise to you: *do not use tables for layout* If you have real table (like extract of data from database table) - it's ok. But for layouting, you should use DIV and SPAN (display: block and display: inline) formatting elements. To make something on *left side*, use 'float: left' for that block (it applies to menus, page links, etc.) To make *something on right side*, use 'float: right' | > | > Second example: in Netscape i can't make exact frames with exactly for | > example 750 pixels. Then its always i little more or a little less when | > i also put a picture on the background with exactly 750 pixels. So | > thats also a problem. testcase? (short HTML example, below 1000bytes, demonstarating problem) | > | > Is there any book/refference or help about these problems ? | > | > greetings + Thanks, | > Vincent | > The Netherlands -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
