Interesting Stats....sign of things to come?

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by sarettah

I hit one the other day that made me go hmmmm.

I was working a "css only" layout (no tables, just class and ids defined in css) and it worked properly in IE but was messing up in FF.

Checked the code 10 ways to hell, through all sorts of css checkers, changed it around in ways I know should throw it off.

Bottom line was that FF was not handling the css properly but IE was.

I finally figured a work around that forced it to work in FF.

It was weird though, kind of like working backwards because I am so used to IE being the fucked up browser.

I use FF and IE about equally.

Sounds like something you could sell!

[Dianna Vesta]

I haven't noticed any difference in the way pages look in FF or IE. I too check my sites in both. What I have noticed is how it handles cookies and permissions. For instance I can't see anything if FF when I go to Amazon so I use IE. It also won't log me into CCBill so again I use IE. It just does that with some sites and I never have time to try and figure out why. All and all I use FF.

As for Vista- I got my son a pc recently that has Vista loaded. Its pretty damn cool but of course I'll wait at least 6-12 months. I can't afford downtime and I run too many programs. I went through hell when I switched to XP. Vista would take some getting use to like anything esle but its really cool.

Dianna

[bluemoney]

I don’t notice any real difference when viewing my LL http://www.bluemom.com in IE or FF on my PC at home or at work. I used to but I just kept “fucking” around with it in Dreamweaver until it got better and saved those templates for future use.

Never had a problem with CCBill in FF.

I used to have a problem viewing sites with the .shtm extension in FF but I added AddType text/html .shtm to my .htaccess and it cleared that up.

Oh yeah, the other thing I noticed with FF is I can’t paste text at Oprano but I can with IE

[Jace]

fyi

IE is a "forgiving" browser
FF is "strict" browser

so, if something looks great in IE that means IE understood what the issue was and presented it the way it thought it should be presented, and when you open FF and it looks all jacked up, that is because firefox is presenting it the way it was coded

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Jace

fyi

IE is a "forgiving" browser
FF is "strict" browser

Feel like saying "No shit sherlock"... But trying to play nicey nice, ya know.

That is the traditional logic, as it was back in netscape days between ns and days.

The particular issue I was working with was coded correctly and worked in all browsers I checked except FF, I checked ie, opera and a couple of others I have on my home desktop just for such investigations.

In this case FF was requiring a display line (display: block that none of the others cared about. When I checked all my refs they indicated that I should not have to set the display to get where I wanted to be.