Are Microsoft stupid!!? Lol

Iszak · 14-11-2008, 04:20 AM

A reason why your website may be appearing incorrectly in multiple browsers is if you don't have a document type so ensure that you have a well formed document that has a document type like as follows.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

    <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">
    <meta name="author" content="Author">

    <title>Site Name - Site Slogan</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    

  </body>
</html>

Now this is just one I use - but by using a document type at the type it will send most browsers into 'standard mode', saving hassels. For examples http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=528569 if you read some comments about the padding messing up in Internet Explorer compared to Firefox - this is because of the box model bug in Internet Explorer, by supplying a document type it will avoid this bug; identifying the importance of a document type.

Black_Apalachi · 14-11-2008, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by HabbDance

Lol, glad to help :]

Leave your current default stylesheet:
<style type="text/css">

</stlye>

Then copy your default stylesheet and put it in a new document. Make the changes that you need for the browser. Save as styleie6.css, then add the code i showed you.

Maybe someone can explain that better

Ok well suddenly everything's fallen into place on IE, FF and after a fit, Opera

(I havn't checked Safari). So I'll leave things as they are but thanks for he tip, I may use it in the future

. +rep if I can.

Originally Posted by HotelUser

It's weird. Firefox randomly stops loading pages since I got Vista (I'm shocked....a product problem on Vista

). Now I'm forced to use Google Chrome, it's decent I suppose.

Ooh I havn't tried Chrome yet. I'll have to download that now

.

Originally Posted by Iszak

A reason why your website may be appearing incorrectly in multiple browsers is if you don't have a document type so ensure that you have a well formed document that has a document type like as follows.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

    <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">
    <meta name="author" content="Author">

    <title>Site Name - Site Slogan</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    

  </body>
</html>

Now this is just one I use - but by using a document type at the type it will send most browsers into 'standard mode', saving hassels. For examples http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=528569 if you read some comments about the padding messing up in Internet Explorer compared to Firefox - this is because of the box model bug in Internet Explorer, by supplying a document type it will avoid this bug; identifying the importance of a document type.

Again, I don't to fiddle while everthing's working well but thanks for the tip also

. +rep if I can.

Johno · 14-11-2008, 01:00 PM

Here are a few things that might help

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/...or-better-css/

http://nettuts.com/html-css-techniqu...resetcss-file/

http://cssforlunch.com/

Hope it helps!

~~Malachy~~ · 14-11-2008, 01:03 PM

I still use IE, I like it.

**AgnesIO** · 14-11-2008, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Awfy

The way to combat it is to sue Microsoft for being Microsoft and throw Granny Smiths at them until they get the message.

Bit of a waste of her apples isnt it?

~~Jackboy~~ · 14-11-2008, 06:02 PM

Microsoft aren't stupid..

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT

Althought i dislike internet explorer as well, but i learnt to deal with it.

wazup999 · 14-11-2008, 09:05 PM

Lol I also dislike IE. When i was 12 and under I thought it was good because it was the only browser I ever used. But then because of viruses and spyware IE was being really slow so I downloaded firefox and I've been in love ever since. I think Firefox is a lot better because I can do some things that IE can't do.

So at school I just bring my portable version on my usb

lol

I've never had a problem coding a webpage with firefox but IE usually will mess it up.

This was my pointless post,
Ownage ;]

H0BJ0B · 14-11-2008, 09:32 PM

Firefox is crap.
Opera is crap.
Safari is crap.
GoogleChrome is crap.

Internet Explorer until I die!

Snex · 15-11-2008, 10:31 AM

No Microsoft aren't stupid as if they spent all there time bothered about IE then they wont make any money as it's free anyway. These might aswell be working on the next OS or working on new programs which they are going to charge for gaining them extra revenue resulting in them gaining what they want - money.

Yonder · 15-11-2008, 12:12 PM

Use different stylesheets for ie and other browsers.

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