Browser Woes

[Ken Smith]

I was down at the computer store a few moments ago using their machine that had IE7 installed, found out that IE7 had corrected a flaw that IE6 had and it had broke a web page or two that I have recently built with IE6, sheezzz!!, almost can't win for nothing. :basic01

Those of you who visited my Memorial to Mathias page with IE7 would have seen that the right side had dropped down, it was broke, but now is repaired without using any css or javascript hacks. :basic03

Firefox and Opera browsers render it correctly. Hopefully Microsoft will get more on board with the web standards project.

Almost like buying a new car only to have to put it in the shop right off the bat because of a flaw that should not be there.

Guess I'll have to at least get XP so I can install IE7. :basic07
I find building web pages very interesting, but I can't afford to lose too much more hair. :)

Ken

[Carsten Schermuly]

As I know as a long year webpage writer, it is not a question what browser is used, it is a question of correct webpage source code. Every webpage should be interpreted equal looking by all browsers. Use validation services in case of doubts what to do.

W3C
http://validator.w3.org/about.html

some links to Validators
http://www.flfsoft.com/html/html_validators.html

Validome - my favourite
http://www.validome.org/lang/en

[Gina Stevenson]

Here to just add an addendum ... again ... to this "browser woes" thread.

Today, again, this silly thing (Firefox) kept opening new windows rather than tabs ... I checked a couple of times and, yes, I'd not changed---nor had anything else (trojan/virus?) changed---the command to open new tabs, not windows.

Also---and this hasn't happened before, but began after the latest Firefox "update(?)"---update-with-a-glitch?---it insisted that I put the caps on for a non-caps password. THEN when I was typing some elsewhere that was supposed to be non-caps (had that key/light off), it turned up caps, and when it appeared to be ON caps, then it typed non-caps. Oddest thing!

After I'd tried about a dozen or more new tabs, it finally quit opening new windows (I'd close them & keep trying for a new tab rather than window) and began opening new tabs. Oh, well .............. at least I got here. ;)

[Carsten Schermuly]

Dear Gina,

in the FireFox menu bar under "Extras" you get this preference tool.
"Open new pages
(radiobutton) in a new window
(radiobutton) in a new tab."
Do your choice, close the preference tool and end FifreFox (close all windows). After new start of FireFox, it should do what you do like.

[Gina Stevenson]

Yes, that's exactly the place [the picture you posted] where I go to check to see if "new tab" has been somehow changed to "new window." Thanks, anyway. ;)

Dear Gina,

in the FireFox menu bar under "Extras" you get this preference tool.
"Open new pages
(radiobutton) in a new window
(radiobutton) in a new tab."
Do your choice, close the preference tool and end FifreFox (close all windows). After new start of FireFox, it should do what you do like.