Re: HTML code fragment alignment

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From: David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] (dbartosik_at_community.nospam)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:14:08 -0600

Hardware does not effect the code generation. It's a display issue with
laptops. Seemingly with Dells.

To be helpful we'd need you to post graphics details on both machines...

graphics card model
video driver with version
resolution setting
physical screen size

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22C46EB0-9935-4DED-9CFB-819C653F6438@microsoft.com...
>I tried an interesting experiment last night and ended up with some
>success.
>
> I loaded my copy of Pub2003 onto my other Dell laptop (Sorry MS for
> violating the licensing policy but I'm at a dead end). My older laptop is
> a
> Dell 8100 w/ a standard aspect ratio running Win2000, latest ver of IE,
> and
> now Pub2003.
>
> I brought over my files on a flash drive, opened them in pub, created a
> new
> document, then dragged over one page for testing. I then aligned the
> fragments with the WYSIWYG method, published to web, and it worked in both
> IE
> and Netscape.
>
> I then (from my 8100) realigned all the other HTML frags from my entire
> site
> designed originally on the widescreen dell (8600), published to web from
> the
> 8100, and it works as it should.
>
> The point of my story is that I can do all of the design on my 8600, align
> all objects as they should be by WYSIWYG, save the pub file, put it on a
> flash drive, open it on my 8100, publish to Web, then post that file to
> the
> server and it works as it should. While this isn't an ideal work around,
> it
> is exponentially better than the previous solution.
>
> Turns out (i think at least) that I was correct with my original
> assumption
> that there is a "build issue" with Pub2003 on the 8600. When it converts
> these frags into the doc it doesn't build correctly. Maybe MS can use
> this
> info to fix the problem and not sue me for my licensing violation :)
>
> "Chris" wrote:
>
>> Sorry for reposting but I never rec'd a response and didn't want my
>> thread to
>> get lost.
>>
>> I added HTML code fragments to two sites.
>> www.advancedaudioinc.com (See "Manufacturers Links")
>> www.chrissmithtest.com (See any of the pages w/ "add to cart" or "view
>> cart")
>>
>> In the design view I have to misalign the fragment up and to the left to
>> have it display correctly in IE. If you view the page in Netscape or
>> Mozilla
>> (The rest of my site looks correct in these browsers), you can see where
>> I
>> have had to position the fragments so that they correctly display in IE.
>> As
>> you see it in Netscapre is exactly how I had to arange the fragment in
>> publisher
>>
>> Another interesting note is that with the misaligned fragment, it will
>> display correctly in IE on a standard monitor but not in a widescreen
>> monitor
>> such as my Dell 8600. My friend has an identical laptop and has the same
>> problem viewing these fragments (The rest of the site appears fine to
>> him).
>>

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