Whatcha'll think?
Ok. Fixed the probelm I was having a few minutes ago. Now I get to put the link back up.
http://www.logsdon.org/james/atx/atx-design.html
It's W3C Approved HTML 4.0 Transitional, and works fine in IE6. I'm not sure about Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera, though. I'd greatly appreciate if someone could tell me how it looks in those 3.
Thanks.
[James Logsdon]
Busy posted this at 02:22 — 12th February 2003.
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You should always remember just because it validates doesn't mean it will display thesame on all browsers.
in opera6 there is a, what looks like a search/message section of input boxs, with buttons that say "find it ..." and "send it ..." ie5, mozilla or NS doesnt have it.
the mouse over doesnt work in any browser other than IE, and the dotted image by the nav only displays in IE
the iframe doesnt work in Opera6 and the botto of the iframe (content) is cut off in NS7
doesnt look at all good in NS4.7 but has all the input boxs etc at the bottom like opera has just not ordered, NS4.7 actually has the text besides the input boxs (search, Recipient, message) where as opera just has the input boxs
what did you use to validate it?
necrotic posted this at 20:30 — 12th February 2003.
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http://validator.w3.org/
That's why I wanted to see what it looked like in other browsers, I knew it wouldn't look the same. Thanks for your help.
About an iframe, the page doesn't have any. It's all tags and CSS. I've got overflow: auto for the divs, though.
[James Logsdon]
Megan posted this at 20:52 — 12th February 2003.
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AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Teeny fonts! NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Seriously, I'm going to start a campaign against teeny-tiny font sizes.
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Busy posted this at 20:55 — 12th February 2003.
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I didn't peek at the code this time, theone time I dont I get caught out
the overflow has some browser issues, think there was a work around for it some where, I'll try find it.
If your using div's etc have you thought about using XHTML trans or strict.
The XHTML DOC tag seems to be getting more support now (since they messed it up) than the HTML one, just try the XHTML tag and see if it changes your layout
if you need it
necrotic posted this at 22:29 — 12th February 2003.
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I added the XHTML DOC tag and the other two, added /> to all tags that don't close (![]()
, etc...). Now it looks like crap even in IE6. It doesn't change look at all in Opera (found it on my hard drive 
). I'll probably either have to trash this whole layout (I'd cry if I had too. I really like it except it looks like trash in other browsers) or rewrite it all. Both options stink.
[James Logsdon]
Busy posted this at 02:44 — 13th February 2003.
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did you try validate it in XHTML mode?
I've found IE6 is a horrible browser but everyone to their own. If it's messing up in XHTML mode you might want to look at your coding as all you've done is changed DOC tag (and added few '/' end tags)
You might have to use tables instead of CSS for layout unless you want to check line by line browser compatibilty of the CSS and since you found Opera make it on Opera instead of IE (Can also validate from Opera - right click/frame/validate)
c-double posted this at 04:01 — 13th February 2003.
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Win98SE at 1024x768 with NS 4.79 doesn't work at all
Win98SE at 1024x768 with Mozilla 1.3a is ok, but very hard to read
The Webmistress posted this at 08:28 — 13th February 2003.
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I agree with Megan that everything is far too hard to read as the font is so small but other than that everything is sitting on top of each other (IE6), there is a horizontal scrollbar at 800*600, the colour is too dark IMO and the navigation links look odd to me where their background only goes the width of the actual text.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
necrotic posted this at 20:28 — 13th February 2003.
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Today I'll be rewriting it. I'll increase the font-size for you old people
The Webmistress posted this at 08:26 — 14th February 2003.
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It has nothing to do with age! My goddaughter, who is 7, was here when I looked at it and even she said that the writing was small!!
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:56 — 14th February 2003.
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It has everything to do with age. Any decent teenager will tell you that font is perfectly alright. In fact, they might even go so far as to say it's too big!
Suzanne posted this at 14:47 — 14th February 2003.
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that's right, teenagers don't actually read, I keep forgetting that...
Megan posted this at 14:58 — 14th February 2003.
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And don't worry about going blind either...
PipeTen posted this at 16:35 — 19th February 2003.
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Works ok in Opera 7.0 Win 2K
Very flickery and things overlap in IE6. Win 2K
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