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Question:I'm using NVU, and this is my first website. When I preview my page through Firefox, it looks exactly like I designed it, but when I look at it through Internet Explorer 7, it is distorted. Why is this and what can I do to make it look normal in both?
Answers:
You have the wrong idea about how the internet works and why HTML does what it does.
You see, everyone has a different display setting, different windows sizes, different resolution, different text size setting. When you attempt to defeat these parameters, you might lose your visitor. Your webpage might be viewed by someone using a cell phone. Your webpage should be able to adapt to that.
Learn about accessibility and make an adaptable website. Otherwise, upload a PDF FILE. That's what you would use to provide a specific look that is intended to print the same on every type of printer.
So what you must do, is test your website with Internet Explorer 7 and adjust the page design so that you are happy. Then test it again with FireFox (which follows the HTML specs more precisely). You might have to balance things to make it work exactly the way that you want it to look for both. They won't be identical.
Here is an example: http://www.cruisingconnecticut.com... Try resizing the text and window. Notice that I have made every effort to make the page viewable on screen widths of 800 or greater, and keep things in balance. Yes, IE7 and FireFox are very different.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
Design an CSS embeded website.
Do you get any error messages in IE status bar.?
Also if your script is heavy on JAVA applets JavaScript ,IE7
creates problems. ( JAVA support removed from IE7)
Check IE/Interrnet Options/ Advanced list.
Download IE tab addon for Firefox and switch to IE from FF.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox...
You may get the differences.
From Wikepedia quote
Nvu (pronounced "N-view") is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1.7. Unquote
so may not work properly for viewing with IE.
Most times this becomes a CSS issue and this is the only way to make your website look the same in all the popular browsers. Also...test, test and test in all of them. I suggest that you validate your HTML code and your CSS. Go here to do that:
For HTML: http://validator.w3.org/
For CSS: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...
They will provide you with an error report and you can fix whatever the problem may be.
Also, you can test for various Screen resolutions here:
http://www.anybrowser.com/screensizetest...
You can do a Browser Compatibility here:
http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.htm...
and here:
http://browsershots.org/
and you can test for accessibility here:
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
That should help you,
DianeD
http://www.dironwebdesign.com/
use css and test it on both browsers and probably netscape also every step of the way not just when you are through with the whole page
When writing HTML code, try to abide by web standards as much as you can. Even when doing so, you might be surprised when not all browsers will display your page the way you expect it. This is because not all browsers conform totally to web standards. IE is notorious for bending the rules in this area. When you're code is web standards compliant yet it does not display as expected, you'll have to trick the browser to display what you want by playing a little bit of playing with your code.
There is no direct answer to your question. It's a matter of trial and error.
Hope this helps.
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