Re: Browser Incompatibility

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In article <59B21307-7428-4223-BCA5-C42BED5CBBD9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, WhiskeyRomeo <WhiskeyRomeo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
The application looks great In IE 5.x and greater. But even a simple login page that only has textboxes look like crap in FireFox and Safari.

This almost certainly means that the (X)HTML and/or CSS are invalid. IE5.x was the worst of all the IE versions, and IE itself is the worst of all browsers when it comes to rendering correctly.

Make sure that any (X)HTML and CSS you write are 100% valid, and test them on a standards compliant browser such as Firefox or Safari. Only then should you look at them on IE and fix the bugs. If they work in the first two, then any rendering issues will 99.999% certain be IE bugs (of which there are thousands).

By the way, IE5.x is so little used nowadays that you shouldn't spend too much time fighting its plethora of bugs. Test on IE6 and IE7 as they have the vast majority of the IE users.

--
Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)
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