ejcross — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:03:03 +0000

I have found that it is best to design for Firefox, and then fix the bugs that render in IE. IE7 is pretty close to what FF shows, IE6 sucks, and it gets worse from there.

I strongly recommend Firefox, and use the Chris Pederick plugin for web development: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
this plugin for FF has saved me countless hours of figuring out things as you can turn on and off the CSS, use the information bar to see exactly what element is showing, and shows the div blocks, plus more.

As for bugs in IE, I would recommend:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/

This site has some of the best known IE bugs and their fixes.

Good luck!

webwiz — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:41:44 +0000

Hi Frtaz,
Welcome to the world of buggy browsers.

I think you are talking about Firefox. While it, too, has bugs, it is a least a modern browser and far more capable than any version of Internet Explorer, I'm afraid. IE is still based on the 1997 Trident engine, and Microsoft maintains the "old" behavior for the sake of old sites that depend on it. There is a so-called "standards mode" that is triggered by relevant DOCTYPEs, but the behavior is extremely buggy.

Assuming you are attempting to use CSS for layout, the best resource I have found to begin tackling some of these bugs is on the css-discuss Wiki. They also have a page on the effects of DOCTYPE.

If you haven't tried it yet, I recommend the Firebug plug-in for Firefox. It rocks!

I also suggest you do not try to make your page "look the same" in different browsers, or you may rapidly lose all your hair. Presentable in all browsers, yes. The same? No.