Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 23:41, Sid Boyce wrote:
Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 23:05, Sid Boyce wrote:
Leendert Meyer wrote:
I run a small website where most of the visitors use IE, so I simply *have* to know how something looks like in IE. I had a few nice tweaks that just looked horrible in IE (e.g. transparent .png graphics). It was quite frustrating that I had to revert changes that looked well in Opera, Firefox and Konqueror, but not in IE.
The only thing I can do is to be sure my site looks well in the weakest (and unfortunately most abundant) link, aka IE.
I really do hope that Firefox, now already looking more than promising, takes over the IE share (and not its reputation).
I take it that altering the browser personality does only that, but doesn't alter how a page looks, so if you view something in konqueror with it's personality set to IE5, the view doesn't change, correct?
Hmmm... I'm not quite sure, but I think you're right.
There is one site I just looked at and it displayed the page, then rapidly put up an anouncement page that implied that only IE and early Netscape browsers were compliant - the typical lie. I changed the personality of konqueror to IE5.5 on Windows 95 and it was then happy.
Indeed. But some sites have built-in (il-)logic, that (tries to) detect(s) the browser, and act upon the outcome, sometimes to the benefit of the viewer. My site uses this kind of logic to let phplayersmenu look right in most browsers (http://phplayersmenu.sf.net/).
Cheers,
Leen
I'm no wizard at building web sites, but I've noticed while attempting to build a site or checking a friend's web site, all done under Linux with quanta, nvu, etc., the site will display OK in konqueror and be all messed up in firefox. It cries out for a common standard to be adopted, a browser should be like a pair of binoculars, it shouldn't have to interpret the view, it will happen, perhaps one cold day in hell. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====