Re: The Battle of the Browsers

In article <0001HW.C1958786003886AEB019F94F@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I have a website in development and have tried it on a number of
Macintosh 
> hosted browsers. The website, according to the validator at 
> <http://validator.w3.org/>
has passed as "Valid HTML 4.01 Strict". 
> 
> The site displays as intended when viewed via Safari and Firefox. 
> 
> The site fails to display as intended when viewed via iCab, Camino, and 
> Opera. 
> 
> The site is a disaster when viewed via Internet Explorer. 
> 
> The site in question can be found at 
> <http://homepage.mac.com/taliesinsoft/Adams/>.

Safari shows Quicktime music control, blue fuzzy borders on the 
thumbnails, and pop-ups that can not be resized.

Luckily, if you switch Plugs ins and Javascript off, you get rid of the 
music (normally I close any window that plays music at me), and you get 
rid of the blue fuzzy hover effect (one of the perils of styling with 
Javascript instead of CSS is that more people block Javascript than 
override CSS).

Although this setting makes the popups resizeable, they don't pop up. 
Instead they replace the existing page, so you have to use the back 
button to return to it.

My main point is that the web page designer doesn't really have control 
of how people will view pages. Trying to force it simply annoys those 
viewers who like to do their own settings.

Must admit however that I am impressed that Freeway produced valid code, 
and that it was still capable of being viewed in a reasonable way when 
most of the effects were blocked.

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