* Jeferson Lopes Zacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010729 16:59]:
> Oddly enough, all browsers managed to make my page look somewhat
> different. Even Mozilla and Netscape, which I though were close relatives,
> behave totally different about tables, width and bgcolor (in a table/tr/td
> tag.). Konqueror was the most annoying, it made two of my tables overlap.
Go back and look at your code ... you are probably doing something
wrong there. Recent versions of Konqueror do pretty well at basic
HTML rendering. It does barf on some JavaScript, but other browsers
do also.
I would recommend that you stick to fairly simple HTML unless you want
to learn more about it. There are lots of tutorials. Making HTML
work WELL on all common browsers is a pretty tough job. There are
mailing lists that concentrate on such problems. Lots of books, too.
> Is there a way to make sure my page looks good across all browsers?
> other than making it a PDF file? As I said I don't use any particular code
> /tag, all I use is pretty standart ( or so I hope), but if a browser cannot
> handle things such a s a bgcolor for a table then it might rend my page
> unreadable.
It's hard to beat white for a bgcolor ... especially for technical
info. Again, make it simple. Please do NOT go to PDF. There is no
need for PDF for technical instruction ... HTML is universal, but give
up on the idea that all browsers will format it exactly the way you
want it.
I remember consulting with a client who got very mad when he found out
that people may be resizing their browser windows, messing up the
table layouts he had worked so hard on. He assumed everyone would be
using 800x600, full screen MSIE. ;-)
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