ivanmax Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 My site looks good in IE but horrible in Mozilla...why? http://www.artepolaroid.com/principa.....;/columpio.html Please don´t tell me I am gonna have to start again with the design. Thanks, Iván Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 You have stumbled across one of the biggest complaints (that I've heard anyway) in the difference between IE and Mozilla. Mozilla adheres more closely to W3C standards...Micro$oft does their own thing. Yes, it makes designing sites rather difficult. I normally design for Mozilla and make slight modifications to ensure it looks reasonably close in IE. (I do go back and forth between the two quite a bit!) If you look closely, you'll find out that your web page cannot be an exact duplicate, but with a little tweaking, you'll get it awfully darn close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmax Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 My God...I though so. How shall I do this? Is there a way of getting the site to look similar in both browsers? Thanks a lot, Iván Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednarb Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I can't view your link, it seems to be incorrect. However, you can go to http://validator.w3.org, input the correct URL, and it will spit out errors that make it invalid HTML. I've found that if I correct all the errors that the validator shows then the site will look pretty much the same in IE as it does in Mozilla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Use Eric's suggestion (above) and just keep going back and forth between your editor and web browser. If you stick to the W3C standards, it'll look pretty darn close in IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayson Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I did my site and I have 88 errors, so I better fix mine...( i did my site in PHP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Another thing to consider when developing your pages - the nice handy features a WYSIWYG editor adds are not always standard compliant. For instance, FrontPage used to add a lot of things that only work in IE. Perhaps some of the features added by Dreamweaver are also non-standard. It's usually best to stick with regular HTML/CSS/JAVA/etc. type things. The editors are getting much better but they still have some "glitches." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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