> Yup, tried it with Firefox, where it's much easier. One of these
> days I'll see sense and make Firefox the default browser on this
> system.
This is a wise statement in the most part, tis even better to plan on
doing that Soon!!
I already have Firefox on my system and it does get used. I just never seem
to get round to making it the default browser, import IE bookmarks etc.
Nothing more than excuses and laziness :-S
IE is handy for testing my QL website - things tend to go wrong mostly on IE
(usually sort-of-works but doesn't look quite as I intended), so I find it
vital to test on that.
The only issue I had with Firefox is it never seems to apply stylesheets,
and when I went on various forums to see if there was a simple answer or a
common mistake people made in stylesheets, which made Firefox ignore them
without telling you why (even in the error console), I was horrified to find
that the world and their partners seem to have issues with stylesheets
versus Firefox, and the stylesheets usually fail.
My stylesheet went through W3C validation OK, so I thought I was going to
have a hard time finding out what was going wrong.
Turns out there's actually a simple answer buried deep in Firefox default
settings, which are set by default not to allow pages to specify their own
colours and fonts. A couple of ticks in the boxes and all was well. Suddenly
colours and fonts are the same in both browsers. An answer I never once saw
in all the forums I read, which also probably explains why there were so
many "it works fine on my computer" replies.
And For a while the server farm that handled all that for MS was
sub-contracted out and the servers ran a form of linux.
He he,probably says a lot :-)
Dilwyn
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