Site is broken in many browsers [Archive]

qwaz

12-10-2002, 08:12 PM

Has the designer of this site ever looked at the site in any other browsers other than IE?

http://www.pentameter.org/b0rked.png

Xenon

12-10-2002, 08:21 PM

it's a well known problem, that many browsers can't work perfectly with tables in tables.....

it's nearly impossible to make a site looking good in all browsers if it's a bit complexer in design

Erwin

12-10-2002, 08:35 PM

It's true - my forums don't work well with Netscape...

N9ne

12-10-2002, 08:35 PM

My forums don't work with anything except IE...why oh why does there have to be these other browsers!

qwaz

12-10-2002, 10:16 PM

Any designer worth his or her salt can make a site work for browsers other than IE.

People are just lazy...I remember days when things called "standards" were taken seriously...and functionality came before flashy looks.

But hey, it's not like a bunch of kids are going to actually put time and effort into their site.

Erwin

12-11-2002, 12:28 AM

It's none other than PaulJ from vB.com (judging from the site in your sig). :) I wouldn't classify myself as a kid, but yes, I am lazy. :) But I do have almost 6,000 members after 1 year online, so I must be doing something right.

filburt1

12-11-2002, 12:32 AM

99.5% of my visitors are using at least IE5.5+ and, ironic as it may be considering my site and unprofessional as it may sound, I really don't care how it looks in other browsers (although coincidently it usually looks good in Mozilla).

qwaz

12-11-2002, 12:48 AM

Originally posted by filburt1
I really don't care how it looks in other browsers

Sad.

okrogius

12-11-2002, 01:25 AM

Originally posted by qwaz

Sad.

Yet your board's html begins with..

<body bgcolor="#f2f2f4" id="all" letftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" link="#000033" vlink="#000033">

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head>

:rolleyes:

But sticking to standards is a good thing. All my designs that I made in the last 6 months pass for xhtml 1.0 transition and mjaority for strict. :p

filburt1

12-11-2002, 01:53 AM

Originally posted by qwaz

Sad. Maybe so, but the 0.5% of people using other browsers do not justify the time required to redesign many of the table layouts and IE-specifc CSS.

Logician

12-11-2002, 07:56 AM

Originally posted by qwaz
Has the designer of this site ever looked at the site in any other browsers other than IE?

umm have you ever visited your own forum with Netscape Communicator 4.7? It's completely unreadable and not even a single forum shows up. I thought you might wanna check ;)

Xenon

12-11-2002, 12:05 PM

good one pal :)

"I remember days when things called "standards" were taken seriously"
I think you did not realise, that IE is standard, so it is taken seriously....

But nevertheless there are other styles here i think at least the purple one can fit with your non-standard browser...

it has nothing to do with lazyness, filburt is right, it's business to work so it fits the majority and it isn't worth to do so much extra work for just a very small minority..

Dean C

12-11-2002, 06:11 PM

Anybody who uses anything other than IE is a idiot IMO.

Nut scrape *cough netscape cough* is so ++++ty

- miSt

NTLDR

12-11-2002, 08:25 PM

*LMAO!* @ Locician :D

And even if you do follow standards 100% correctly and they validdate your site still won't work in all browsers, unless your going to code in HTML 3.2 or lower then there will allways be those users who can't view the site correctly.

On another note many sites are designed for the browser a majority of there visitors use at the end of the day if you don't like the way a site looks don't visit it again, its quite simple IMO.

Sparkz

12-12-2002, 01:23 AM

Originally posted by Mist
Anybody who uses anything other than IE is a idiot IMO.

Gotta love that reasoning... [ - insult removed by Erwin - ]!

Erwin

12-12-2002, 02:44 AM

Okay, let's keep personal insults to a minimum or I'm going to close this thread.

TECK

12-12-2002, 02:57 AM

Netscrape 7 is pretty good IMO... Although, I use it only for testing purposes...

Smoothie

12-12-2002, 03:02 AM

Mozilla is my browser of choice. IE blows chunks.

corsacrazy

12-12-2002, 07:27 AM

say if a certain site worked perfectly in ie and on a pc, how would the person go about making it work on a mac using netscape ?

Dean C

12-12-2002, 08:04 AM

Sorry it wasn't a direct insult to anyone in particular Erwin

I just feel that IE is far better than any other browser

- miSt

filburt1

12-12-2002, 11:56 AM

Originally posted by corsacrazy
say if a certain site worked perfectly in ie and on a pc, how would the person go about making it work on a mac using netscape ?
Mac Mozilla (NS7 is Mozilla, only worse) is identical in rendering to Windows Mozilla. IE5.2 on Mac though is freaky and barely anything like IE6 for PC so you really need to just find a Mac to test it on.