A quick glance at the calendar revealed an alarming truth. I’ve been doing web-related stuff for almost 10 years already. Still can’t stop asking myself — “that long?!?”
After all these years, I still can’t find a solution to one of the most common problem of website development - cross-platform compatibility*. My common problem has something to do with CSS (Cacading Style Sheet). I think I can safely say that each browser has its way of rendering CSS. So weird things always show up.
[img=Internet Explorer 5.2 on Macintosh]/gallery/20031010/mac_ie5.jpg!
[img=Safari 1.0 on Macintosh]/gallery/20031010/mac_safari.jpg!
[img=Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 2000]/gallery/20031010/win_ie5.jpg!
[img=Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000]/gallery/20031010/win_ie6.jpg!
[img=Mozilla 1.3 on Windows 2000]/gallery/20031010/win_moz13.jpg!
[img=Opera 6 on Windows 2000]/gallery/20031010/win_opera.jpg!
%(rem)BrowserCam.com : Captured at 1024x768%
Most of the browsers render my TBOX correctly — except IEWin. :)
Certainly, there’s a way to write one code that shows up nicely on most of the browsers in the market (such as using
). But if I do that, it would mean that I have to abandon all the fun of debugging the HTML code. :)
Oh well ..
%(me)* There are numbers of “how-to create an x-browser compatible website” floating around all over the web. But I haven’t seen any one-code-fix-all kind yet.%
noi | Feb 23, 07 at 2:57 pm
aww.. so i’ve been viewing your page incorrectly all along….? ^^%
nitchawan | Feb 23, 07 at 2:57 pm
Seems like your codes don’t like “some company” very much. However, the codes are just lines of text, they can be biased. So can I say the person who wrote the codes are so??? :-)
I am very stupid in making web pages (lacking of both coding skill and artistic skill.) I had “a program” installed on my computer, but don’t know the fancy commands. So I ended up working on the actual html codes, rather than “that program” features when I wanted to modify something.
That’s the way a person who learned html when Mosaic was the major browser and Netscape was catching on makes a web page…. Duh!!!!