TargetZion — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:58:55 +0000

There! Done! It does display a little bit differently in FireFox than in IE though. Not really enough to notice unless you're searching for it.

Suzanne — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:58:15 +0000

acsinclair wrote: Firefox...not foxfire...right?

:martian: I have my own language some days... you're RIGHT!

TargetZion — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:24:15 +0000

Suzanne wrote: http://www.freewebs.com/team40racing/css.css shouldn't have the HTML style element tags, nor the HTML comments in it, it's a CSS file.

Hehe. Oops. I copied and pasted the css from the html files and forgot to remove the html coding from it. My bad. Also, thanks for letting me know about the numbered class thing. I was unaware, and use numbers to identify everything. Thank you very much! Saved me more hassle. Appreciated. Fixing the issue right now.

And, yes, it is FIREFOX. Good catch.

acsinclair — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:27:48 +0000

Just a small comment...I think the browser name is Firefox...not foxfire...right?

Cheers,
Erica

Suzanne — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 05:27:52 +0000

I could itemize the problems, but I'll sum it up to say that positioning and standards are not as supported in IE as in other browsers, so if it looks right in IE, but not other browsers, it's most likely your code. This is not a matter of debate -- go reading about CSS from the experts, this is not conjecture, this is the current situation as IE has stopped development and the other browsers have not.

That said, the current site design is a mash of tables, and should render almost identically badly in all browsers. It does in all of mine, anyway, looks the same in IE as it does in Foxfire, Safari, Netscape, et cetera.

Why?

Because your css is invalid: http://www.freewebs.com/team40racing/css.css shouldn't have the HTML style element tags, nor the HTML comments in it, it's a CSS file. Numbers are not allowed for class names. Unit measures are required for any value that is not zero.

When in doubt, validate, validate!

TargetZion — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 05:02:32 +0000

Ok, try it now. Seems to be in working order for us. By the way, I'm not sure about IE being the worst for CSS. We've never had a problem with it and this particular issue is rather confusing. Obviously no browser is perfect, but IE displays it as it was meant to be. It's only when you open it in a mozilla/netscape browser that there is an issue. Also, whomever said there was a Javascript error, please point that out. I have yet to find it and would like to fix it if possible, thanks.

JeevesBond — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:27:12 +0000

Heh, I'm glad you took over. Your partners posts were becoming slightly offensive (in addition to being rather ill-informed and simply incorrect).
In particular IE has the worst CSS support of any of the latest browsers available, also testing should be done in the greatest range of browsers available - what's the point in building a web site if not everyone can view it?

If the owners of the team like the design then that's good, it's not a road I would have gone down, but then only you and your partner know the specs for the job - I wouldn't like to second guess that

Let us know how you get on with the validation...

TargetZion — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:58:09 +0000

Haha... Stupid life and it's reminders.

Busy — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:10:47 +0000

Hang in there,
It's just lifes way of reminding you your only human.

TargetZion — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:15:02 +0000

Ok, so our network went down and we haven't been able to get to updating the Team 40 site. We're hoping to get it done by the end of today or tomorrow morning. Man, we're having some bad luck...