Re: Website built in Frontpage 2003 looks bad in Chrome & FF

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I see no major differences between IE7, IE8 and FireFox 3.014. There are differences, because as far as I can see you have not defined any text sizes - this leaves it up to the browser to decide how large the text should be.

" I thought that with the new generation of browsers there would be some
conformity of appearance - I mean aren't there agreed standards now-a-
days? - but it seems that web designers still need to code for the
different idiosyncracies of the browsers that are out there. "

Yes, there are standards - but YOU have to code to them. FrontPage does not code to standards, so you have to. And even today's browsers have their own idiosyncracies that you have to overcome, IE6 being the worst of the bunch. IE6 and to a lesser extent IE7 do not follow standards. FrontPage defaults code that looks good in IE5.

Your own code is curious- lots of potential CSS there, but there is one error repeated so many times it would be easier to start again than correct.

To start - there is no !doctype. The !doctype places the browser in standards mode. The other mode - Quirks - means that IE will follow the rendering rules that IE5 follows, and FireFox will follow a different set of rules.

The error:

<p id="heading_1"><span><span><span><span><span id="text_1_wrapper"><span id="text_1">

What's with all the spans? And where are the CSS for heading_1, text_wrapper_1 and text_1 defined?
The big mistake is that these id's are repeated - an id can only be used ONCE on the page. If you need the CSS more often then use classes instead. Or if you are not using CSS - don't use anything. <p> on it's own is just as good in your page.
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Ron Symonds
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"CJB" <chrisjbrady@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:17b54a74-3008-43d8-aec6-904b443c69f1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have built a webpage using FP 2003 with a FP theme. It works well in
I.E. 7/8. The text is large and bold, and the background is just
visible, and the embedded videos play OK. The website is at:
http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/jigdolls/jigdolls.htm

However I've now had reports that folks using Chrome and Firefox can't
read the text because it is small and thin and the background gif
overwhelms it.

So please can someone give me pointers to adjusting the FP generated
HTML (or whatever) so that the pages look the same as in I.E.

I thought that with the new generation of browsers there would be some
conformity of appearance - I mean aren't there agreed standards now-a-
days? - but it seems that web designers still need to code for the
different idiosyncracies of the browsers that are out there.

Thanks - ChrisJBrady

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