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Old 10-25-2007, 06:45 AM IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Good Morning everyone,

While I am finishing the final pages of this site I am running across a problem with the home page, if you view the page with IE the page shows everything in the correct format and the way I want it to look, if you view this particular page using Firefox the page looks like a three year-old got was helping design it. I have noticed that all of the other pages are ok with the other browsers.

Home Page: http://majesticvacations.net/uspshome.htm

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Old 10-25-2007, 09:16 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Well, it seems maybe you designed some of the page in word? I would throw it into HTML Tidy and see what that fixes for you.
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Old 10-25-2007, 11:06 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Take a look at these errors found by W3C you may find your problem there.

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Old 10-25-2007, 02:41 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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You have no DOCTYPE, it's a mess of ugly deprecated tags, and you've used absolute positioning for things where it's not necessary.

First lesson - FP produces IE-centric code that other browser ignore AND IE has some serious bugs that makes it the LEAST standards-compliant browser out there. If you want to put sites on the web, you should 1) ditch front page, and 2) test your pages in Firefox or Opera FIRST, then kick IE into submission to display things the correct way.

Liberal use of CSS is also recommended.
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Old 10-27-2007, 03:39 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Thanks everyone for your advice. What would you recommend besides FP?
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Old 10-27-2007, 06:47 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Notepad.. until you have HTML down cold and a good grasp of CSS.
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Old 10-30-2007, 01:37 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Some might call it an unfair fight. We have Microsoft, which dominates the browser market, and we have the insurgent Firefox. And it is an unfair fight. Microsoft is outclassed by Mozilla's newest version of their Firefox browser. Firefox browses faster and it is more likely to correctly display a page. Throw in the numerous extensions and plug-ins available for Firefox and Internet Explorer is outgunned. Expect Microsoft to hit backhard with their next release of Internt Explorer, but for now the throne belongs to Mozilla.
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Old 10-30-2007, 03:32 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Expect Microsoft to hit backhard with their next release of Internt Explorer,
Yeah.. I'm not holding my breath on that one -- and even if they did, I STILL would not use IE !!
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Old 10-30-2007, 06:15 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Yeah.. I'm not holding my breath on that one -- and even if they did, I STILL would not use IE !!
But we still need to use IE to test as there as still a lot of IE users out there, many if whom will probabaly never had heard of alternatives like firefox and opera.
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Old 10-31-2007, 07:51 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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alan1961 is right, one of the sites I manage last weeks report shows (Visits per Browser):

Explorer 6.x: 39.69%;
Explorer 7.x: 35.82%;
Firefox: 22.23%;
Safari:1.01%;
other: 1.25%;
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Old 10-31-2007, 03:23 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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But we still need to use IE to test as there as still a lot of IE users out there, many if whom will probabaly never had heard of alternatives like firefox and opera.
No argument there whatsoever, we're stuck with IE and (for now) it's lackluster support of standards and higher-level CSS.
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Old 11-06-2007, 01:21 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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hello friend

internet explorer support google toolbar in windows 98 but mozilla firfox do not support google toolbar in win 98. is there any solution to install firfox with google toolbar in win 98

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Old 11-06-2007, 01:24 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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It looks fine to me in firefox. :-)
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Old 11-06-2007, 08:49 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Without the IE/Firefox issues, our jobs would be too easy.
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Old 11-06-2007, 02:21 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Well.. lets put it this way, with the IE ISSUES, our jobs would be considerably easier
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Old 11-08-2007, 03:58 AM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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It seems all the same.
IE7.0 VS FIREFOX2.0
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Old 11-08-2007, 12:35 PM Re: IE vs. Firefox issue?
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Here is your solution, or at least a possible one. Internet Explorer was made by idiots, in my opinion. For this solution you will need PHP scripting, so you'll need a PHP enabled server. You'll have some Scripting query your browser to figure out which is being used, then after figuring that out it will direct the website to use a different set of Stylesheets.

Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>TITLE</title>
<?php
$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT''];
    if (eregi("msie",$agent) && !eregi("opera",$agent))
    {
    echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style_ie.css' media='screen'>";
    else
    {
    echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css' media='screen'>";
    }
?>
</head>
<body>CONTENT</bdoy>
</html>
If The browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer then the website will use the style_ie.css else it will default to the style.css. What about inline? use the same method in the body however replace what is held in the `echo' with what ever content you have.
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