dominic42 Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 i downloaded mozzila the other night and i discovered my website doesnt work well when viewed with it. the problem is, the left frame is there but the table in the frame isnt showing up. is there a way to make sure my site will work with all browsers? dominicswoodshop thanks Dominic Quote
KevinW Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 The only way to make your web site completely browser friendly is to use the lowest common denominator of features. In this case, your problem seems to be related to the fact that your web site was created using frames. It appears (by going to their support site) that Mozilla/Firebird browsers can be tweaked to enable/disable frames. I would suggest going to the Mozilla support forum, post your question and URL and see what they recommend. For example, here is one post I found: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...ighlight=frames -kw Quote
Guest schussat Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 I'm using Firebird, and I see what you mean: The left-hand frame is there, but all I can see is the leftmost edge of the table. Although I'm not sure why Firebird/Mozilla would fail to render the table properly, I think the best solution is probably to remove the table; you don't really need it there, as all the left-hand frame's content could be displayed with simple line or paragraph breaks: >shop <p> router table <p> corner unit <p> etc... <p> etc If I could make one more suggestion, it would be to add target="mainFrame" to each of the links in your leftFrame; this will cause the links to open in the main window frame, rather than in a separate window -- which seems to be the point of using frames in the first place. Nice shop, by the way! I have enough trouble just keeping mine from accumulating junk, let alone building anything in it! -Alan Quote
natimage Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 In the code of your file "indexframe", try making the following changes: ><body marginwidth="75" to ><body marginwidth="10" This does not address the problem mentioned by Kevin...but I don't think what he mentioned was what you were seeing. I played with your site, previewing in IE6 and Mozilla. I previewed with first settings, and frame was pushed too far to the right. When I made the change and previewed with Mozilla...it was ok. Hopefully that will help. You should look into what Kevin mentioned though! Frames aren't the best way to go. I understand why you used them, and I don't have an alternative for you, but I'm sure somebody out there could come up with one!! Good luck! Quote
dominic42 Posted November 27, 2003 Author Posted November 27, 2003 thankyou! thankyou! for the help, changing the margin width to 10 seemed to fix the problem, i really dont have any reason why i chose to use frames, except that im new to this web site stuff and im trying different things. thanks for the compliments on the shop its a ongoing learning experiance just like site buiding. now if i can just get that counter working again Mad!!! i deleted the script out of the cgi folder and cant figure out how to reinstall. but im sure ill get the answer for that soon. take care Dom Quote
natimage Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 Dom, I would forget about the counter, as sometimes they can be counterproductive. If I visit your site and see 1000 visitors, then visit it again the next week and see 1002 visitors, I am not going to be impressed. Awstats is available thru your Cpanel and will tell you how many hits you've had and tons more!!! Glad I could help with your problem...Happy Thanksgiving! Quote
bandheighth Posted November 30, 2003 Posted November 30, 2003 fail to render the table properly Mozilla is standards based software. Unlike Internet Explorer and similar ilk mozilla won't fudge results for the user. If the code is damaged it won't display correctly. Quote
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