webwiz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:44:35 +0000

Quote: True, but I have had nightmares as a result of using IE.

As the people at Sitepoint say: In All Fairness... Internet Explorer Still Stinks.

Reece S — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:49:31 +0000

webwiz;226617 wrote: That's a bit harsh, ChildOfEvil -- especially considering many visitors to the site don't know a browser from a hairbrush, so will use whatever comes on their computer.

Megan's recommendation to view in Firefox, Safari, or Opera first is good. They generally obey your CSS instructions (even when you say something you don't mean!) Internet Explorer bugs are well known, except for the newer IE7. But many of IE7 bugs are the old bugs in new places, so searching for solutions for IE usually comes up with something useful to fix that bugger.

A good place to start is Position Is Everything

True, but I have had nightmares as a result of using IE.
Imagin you have just made a masterpiece, and it took months, you put it online, 2 days later, you find it only works on IE, Imagin how that must feel. I have got a personal problem with IE, no offense to MS fans, but my PC is void of their products, except the OS.

Smp Business Hosting — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:14:07 +0000

drew22299;226638 wrote: Why is Firefox better than IE?

1) Its faster
2) Its more secure
3) It's an open source project, so there are loads of programmers actively looking for security holes before they're exploited
(compared to IE where they only have MS programmers to work on such things)
4) They comply with the standards unlike IE...
5) IE has a tendency to bloody crash!

That’s a few off the top of my head.

Regards, Steve

drew22299 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:46:12 +0000

Why is Firefox better than IE?

demonhale — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:29:35 +0000

As far as cross-browser testing is concerned, it is good to have multiple machines and browsers to check it from. What is good in making a site first in Firefox is that the main quirks are plaid out first. After that you can check in other browsers especially IE which most visitors come from to get a better balance of what it should look like or use some css hacks... Although if your site is more geared towards webmasters or developers, they are probably using a better browser...

calculator — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:09:43 +0000

drew22299;226618 wrote: The point is that Firefox is not formatting the pages properly whereas IE does, is this because the css I have used is not the correct standard?

No it's actually because IE doesn't follow the correct standard. You can have many different browsers installed on one computer so I would install
IE7
Ffox2
Opera9
Lynx (text browser)

If you have full control over your pc, you may want to install stan-alond version of IE6 as well - try Tredosoft for standalone installers

drew22299 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:15:31 +0000

The point is that Firefox is not formatting the pages properly whereas IE does, is this because the css I have used is not the correct standard?

webwiz — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:07:00 +0000

That's a bit harsh, ChildOfEvil -- especially considering many visitors to the site don't know a browser from a hairbrush, so will use whatever comes on their computer.

Megan's recommendation to view in Firefox, Safari, or Opera first is good. They generally obey your CSS instructions (even when you say something you don't mean!) Internet Explorer bugs are well known, except for the newer IE7. But many of IE7 bugs are the old bugs in new places, so searching for solutions for IE usually comes up with something useful to fix that bugger.

A good place to start is Position Is Everything

Reece S — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:29:52 +0000

I have had the exact same problem, try preview in Firefox, forget IE*, it is rubbish. I had to re-upload new page to my server after IE gave me the wrong preview. Firefox is the correct preview. Don't go near IE!!!

Megan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:49:20 +0000

No, it's more like Internet Explorer doesn't handle certain things correctly. Firefox more strictly follows the standards set out by the W3C, whereas IE does it's own thing sometimes.

If you post a url we might be able to help you figure out what the problem is.