Are Microsoft stupid!!? Lol

Black_Apalachi · 13-11-2008, 10:45 PM

Honestly why do they insit on using Internet Explorer? I think it's safe to say nobody likes it! :eusa_wall

I've been checking different browsers as I go along to make sure everything looks OK in them (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari). And everything did... until now.

Firefox is still displaying it 100% perfect.
Opera was 100% perfect.
Safari was pretty good (although everything looks crap in Safari

)
And IE was wasn't doing too badly either I suppose

But NOW....

The first problem is in IE. It completely ignores margins and text is always about a line higher than in other browsers. This is aggrivating me because I'm trying to put a few links at the foot of a content box but in IE they're too high up and go right to the right-hand edge (because I want them right-aligned).

Second problem is in Opera. Up to now it was displaying everything identically to Firefox but suddenly in one div, it's displaying it about two pixels short (length). I could obviously fix this by increasing the div size by two pixels but then it would be too big on every other browser!!

Does anybody possess any magic spells to be traded for positive reputation? Thankies!

Excellent2 · 13-11-2008, 10:55 PM

This has probably been said over 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times in the past. No need for a thread on it

Awfy · 13-11-2008, 11:01 PM

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

Black_Apalachi · 13-11-2008, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Excellent2

This has probably been said over 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times in the past. No need for a thread on it

Well.. there is.. because I was hoping someone may have a solution.....

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.

I'll bare that in mind

.

Shawnstra · 13-11-2008, 11:25 PM

Just for your info, the IE in my school says an error whenever I open it. Yes there is an error, me using it

Tbh, I only think IE's huge market share is due to it taking advantage of the Windows OS. If it was available as a separate download, or even was uninstallable, it would not garner a market share as huge. And - I can't believe IE takes time to load a blank page, like it goes "Loading..." for about a second.

Anyway, go for firefox!

Alexz0r · 13-11-2008, 11:27 PM

[QUOTE] Are Microsoft stupid!!? Lol/QUOTE]

Is* lol soz.

HabbDance · 13-11-2008, 11:31 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.

Tryed that once but it didn't work :[

I also have this problem alot. For IE, you can use this:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>YourSite.com!</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="styleie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
Content...
</body>
</html>

Basicly where it says:

HTML Code:

<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="styleie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

You can make different styles for different IE versions, just change the number and the style.css

Hope i helped

Black_Apalachi · 13-11-2008, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by HabbDance

Tryed that once but it didn't work :[

I also have this problem alot. For IE, you can use this:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>YourSite.com!</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="styleie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
Content...
</body>
</html>

Basicly where it says:

HTML Code:

<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="styleie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

You can make different styles for different IE versions, just change the number and the style.css

Hope i helped

Woah once again HabbDance saves the day!

I think I'll be able to sort my Opera problem using that but I dunno about the IE problem as I can't get it right in IE at all (regeradless of other browsers).

Edit: would the "style.css" file just be the css part of the page as it suggests? So get rid of everything from <body> to </body>? And the otehr two attributes remain as they are?

HabbDance · 14-11-2008, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Robald

Woah once again HabbDance saves the day!

I think I'll be able to sort my Opera problem using that but I dunno about the IE problem as I can't get it right in IE at all (regeradless of other browsers).

Edit: would the "style.css" file just be the css part of the page as it suggests? So get rid of everything from <body> to </body>? And the otehr two attributes remain as they are?

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

**HotelUser** · 14-11-2008, 12:21 AM

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.

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