Author Topic: IE displays correctly..Firefox does not (Read 12398 times)

Kelly · « **on:** April 17, 2006, 09:12:27 PM »

I have about 4 web sites and they all display properly in both of the above mentioned browsers. I recently uploaded a site and it is perfect (in my eyes)

. However it only displays correctly in IE, in FireFox half of the files are missing and misaligned.

Any idea how this happened ?

Any idea how to correct this?

Thanks,
Kelly

Flame · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:20:02 PM »

Everyone's definition of correct is different. How is the site on IE different?

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Kelly · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:23:53 PM »

It is exactly how I designed it in IE

Searching it with firefox ---> more than half of the content is missing and the pics are not alligned.

Flame · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:25:49 PM »

What kind of content do you have? Flash animations?

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Kelly · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:27:01 PM »

No. I will pm you a link

Flame · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:30:03 PM »

Wow. Forget everything else I said. This is a problem. Let me see if I can find a way to fix it... Not having much luck however... :-/

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Kelly · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:30:50 PM »

Nice mess huh?

Flame · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:32:28 PM »

Oh, it's a beautiful mess. I'm at a loss with this one

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Kelly · « **Reply #8 on:** April 17, 2006, 09:34:44 PM »

Wow I didn't think that you were stumpable.

Thanks for looking

Flame · « **Reply #9 on:** April 17, 2006, 10:00:29 PM »

I don't work much with Firefox

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Dilbert · « **Reply #10 on:** April 17, 2006, 10:46:42 PM »

One of the biggest challenges of a HTML designer is that you must make it compliant with as many browsers as possible. Without seeing the source code I don't know if you comply with W3C standards or not, but I know that for a time even MSNBC has severe alignment problems, as well as missing content in FireFox. I am tempted to say "welcome to the nightmare that is compatibility issues". In fact, I will/just did. Compatibility is a nightmare for some content. Would you be willing to PM me a link? I'll view the page in IE, Firefox, and Opera, and the source code... but I won't be able to check tonight. In GMT-8 my day is over, and I'll be heading for bed ~~soon~~ after I peruse the forums one more time.

Fed · « **Reply #11 on:** April 17, 2006, 11:54:35 PM »

Is this address a secret?

Is it porn?

Send me the link too.

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2006, 03:13:47 AM »

I'd also be interested in seeing the link. Cross-browser compatibility is one of my bugbears.

Flame · « **Reply #13 on:** April 18, 2006, 08:17:52 AM »

As would I. You know who also could shine some light on this topic is admin. He had some problems getting the site to work with different browsers. I'm sure he could help...

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Kelly · « **Reply #14 on:** April 18, 2006, 09:20:05 AM »

Um...Nope not porn

Should the PLATFORM read SERVER ASP instead of IE ?

Here is the link:

http://techtogo.ca/

Thanks to all who are interested !

Kelly

soybean · « **Reply #15 on:** April 18, 2006, 01:09:02 PM »

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Should the PLATFORM read SERVER ASP instead of IE ?

Wouldn't be any harm in trying it, would there? If it makes no difference or has a negative impact, you can immediately change it back.

Do you preview the pages in Firefox on your computer before you upload pages to the server?

Dilbert · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2006, 05:28:55 PM »

Internet Explorer was fine, as expected.
Opera, a reliable browser IMO, failed to load more than the three large JPEGs.
I just d/led Firefox (*censored* format...) and I'm about to test... Firefox is a mess!
Mozilla... is just as bad.

I am having trouble even making sense of some of the code. Did you code this yourself? If not, what program did you use?

Kelly · « **Reply #17 on:** April 18, 2006, 06:04:29 PM »

Before I answer, I would like to say that I have not had this problem before.

FrontPage 2002

I just looked at the site while at work and I need to scroll across to see the whole page from edge to edge. Is that the same for you when you see my site?

[edit]I am going to go home tonight and try changing the PLATFORM as per my first post.[/edit]

weasel550 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 18, 2006, 07:56:05 PM »

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Not Found
The requested URL /index_files/image001.gif was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.techtogo.ca Port 80

It would appear that the image is not found rather than just not properly displaying properly...

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<font color="#FFFFFF" face="Century Gothic">Techtogo</font><font color="#000080" face="Century Gothic">
   does far more than just simple computer repair. You may have a computer, but
   don't know how to use most of the software and advanced functions of the
   machine. Possibly you would like to hook up a separate computer for the kids
   or a home business. Perhaps you need to have more than one computer able to
   share a single Internet connection or printer. Or if you have been saving up
   a lot of questions and

etc.

All that is commented when I do view source... :-/Is it supposed to be?

And also...

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<span style='mso-ignore:vglayout;

What the *censored*'s that? I don't think Firefox supports that...seems like a IE thing..

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #19 on:** April 19, 2006, 04:15:26 AM »

Oohhhhh Keeeeeeeelllllleeeeeeee!

Haven't you ditched FrontPage yet? You are just experiencing the pain associated with using that so-called web designer.

Hackerweasel - those bits and bobs are conditional codes which are only understood (I believe) by IE. This is an example of the horror of using a non-standards-compliant web design package, biased towards a non-standards-compliant browser.

Kelly, I see that you've "borrowed" a design layout from elsewhere. If you compare the HTML with your FrontPage-generated HTML, you'll see a HUGE difference. The new HTML is clean, clear and what's more it works on multiple browsers.

I repeat my earlier advice in another thread: get NVu and do your utmost to learn HTML. Continually refer to the HTML 4.0 Reference and pretty soon you'll be designing in code (rather than WYSIWYG) and understanding how it all fits together. That results in less pain in the long run, and much better web design.

If you can afford it and you plan on doing a lot of web design, it would be worth acquiring DreamWeaver. If you'd rather have the best of both worlds (WYSIWYG and plain code) it's unbeatable.

Incidentally, the PLATFORM stuff is a red herring. If you're not doing ASP scripting, you can leave this setting as it is. For performance reasons, it's better to leave ASP parsing off, if you're not using it.

Dilbert · « **Reply #20 on:** April 19, 2006, 04:34:51 PM »

Oh, that's FrontPage? Odd, my mum uses FP and her code looks fairly clean, and it works on Opera and FF. (It's going to undergo a renovation - big changes for her and big $$$ for me.

) Her source isn't the best (why does FP insist on old JavaScript and old HTML???

) but it doesn't have all that crappola on it. Curious... anyway, my advice is to keep FrontPage but only use it for the buttons it generates, which are excellent in design.

Kelly · « **Reply #21 on:** April 19, 2006, 07:44:56 PM »

I went to a FrontPage Template site...came across that template and yadda yadda yadda you know the rest.

I really messed it up last night and I am going to attempt to fix it tonight with Nvu.

Is Nvu similar to FP without all the added trouble?
(sigh)
I shall try it tonight !!!

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 20, 2006, 02:20:40 AM »

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Is Nvu similar to FP without all the added trouble?

Basically, yes.

Good luck!

Kelly · « **Reply #23 on:** April 20, 2006, 11:26:20 AM »

Thanks to everyone and their patience, muchly appreciated !

edsonnlb · « **Reply #24 on:** April 20, 2006, 04:39:05 PM »

You may want to check your code tag by tag. I think the problem must be a bad closed tag. IE does not generate trouble because it prints the document by sections, but Firefox prints the entire document; due to parsing differences. Thhis does not mean one is better than the other, in fact, if you're a web developer you should try your html in as many browsers as possible to generate a clean code.

Mindwr@ck · « **Reply #25 on:** April 20, 2006, 09:51:59 PM »

Personally I only use firefox as my browser and find myself double checking against IE to make sure the Microsoft boys can see the content correctly. If you are using FP then that may very well be your problem, I always code in plain text rather than any type of a code generator so I dont really have many issues unless I forget to close a tag or something stupid like that.

Dilbert · « **Reply #26 on:** April 20, 2006, 10:00:28 PM »

I would recommend downloading the following two browsers for testing:

Netscape
Opera

These are highly popular browsers and if it displays correctly in all four browsers (including FF and IE) then you'll have covered at least 80% of the web viewers, if not more.

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