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Previewing web sites in different browsers

by Wakes da webmaster Aug 28, 2005 7:55PM PDT

Hope someone can help me with this:

My website looks perfect when previewed on my own computer (a Mac) in Internet Explorer 5.2 and Safari 2.0.
However, when its presented on another computer, the layout appears less than perfect and a huge blank gap appears on the right hand side of each page.
What is the best way of getting a good balance so it looks good in all browsers on all computers? I was told there was a tester program available on this site, can someone point me in the right direction?
many thanks.

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This is a neverending story, but...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 28, 2005 10:52PM PDT

Is your HTML code correct?

Put it into the W3C checker at http://validator.w3.org/ to see what errors may be in the code.

Then you can research what or how browsers differ.

Bob

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For starters-

by kayo38 Sep 29, 2005 11:04PM PDT

Use the advice which appears - check your html and css first. Then, install all the browsers you can - if you're dealing with "modern" ones, get Firefox, IE 6, Opera and Netscape. You can even get IE 5 to use as a stand alone. Then use the service which provides a screen shot of your site in Safari (iCapture). I guarantee the problems you mentioned are directly related to CSS - IE is more forgiving, but the other browsers stick to exactly what you tell them to do.

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by kayo38 Sep 29, 2005 11:06PM PDT

If you're really picky, get Netscape 4 and you'll soon learn the art of graceful degradation!

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