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Problem rendering tables in Netscape 6

May 11, 2001, 6:48 AM
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Problem rendering tables in Netscape 6
Please visit my home page using Netscape 6 (I figured I'd better start validating with it so I installed a copy on ZIP disk for now). It was generated from home.html using the build process. Then browse to any directory category and notice the height of the search tabs built from header.txt. Now here's the wierd part. The search tabs code in header.txt is an exact copy of the search tabs code from home.html.

I've just spent the better part of an hour messing with the header.txt search tabs table, nested tables, shim sizes etc and I get nowhere. Any ideas?

Mark Brasche
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May 11, 2001, 7:54 AM
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I would recommend visiting the following web page:

http://developer.netscape.com/

This site contains information for coding HTML for Netscape 6.0 browsers, which BTW SUCKS!

Regards,

Eliot Lee
May 11, 2001, 9:25 AM
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May 11, 2001, 9:25 AM
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Found the problem. Must remove

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

from the templates. Either that or make changes to it that will adjust the behavior of the browser but that's more in depth than I have time for.

And on a personal note, I steer clear of Microsoft products every chance I get. Anyone using Front Page to develop in and/or Outlook for email, and/or MSIE for browsing and/or NT for their server, etc etc etc, deserves what they get. If that means acclimating to someone else's GUI, so be it. Better that than be subject to the many pitfalls and security holes of their mediocreware.

My next hardware purchase is a G4 tower, relegating windoze to an application where it belongs, with the intent of eventually migrating most of my core applications to the native MAC platform. Microsoft can kiss my @$$ goodbye.


Mark Brasche
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May 11, 2001, 10:08 AM
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May 11, 2001, 10:08 AM
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Now Now, *@X*X* language from an owner of a child friendly site Wink

I haven't tried N6 yet, but going by the last versions, everything you think is OK will show incorrectly in Netscape.

As for the best browser brigade, lets not forget Netscape invented the table but has never been able to render them correctly since the start!


- Eraser.
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May 11, 2001, 10:55 AM
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You should give it a look. I find that it now renders tables precisely as I would expect it to, even if it's not what I want based on the adjustments necessary for earlier versions. It's now as I feel it should be and I believe will again set the standard. It also boasts much better support for CSS. My only fault with N6 is that, because they attempted to make the code much less bloated, they had to make some sacrifices.

The one sacrifice I would have never given my approval to was the elimination of internal PICS filtering. They will now, instead, rely entirely on the new ICRA filter add-on software. I would be less opposed to that if ICRA allowed their filter to accept third party PICS labeling standards besides their own, specifically SafeSurf, but after much discussion with them it appears they will not.

I will be beta testing the new software later this month and I still hold hope of swaying their resolve. Only time will tell.

Mark Brasche
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May 11, 2001, 11:04 AM
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May 11, 2001, 11:04 AM
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Uh...Netscape 6.0 does not fully support CSS2 codes....still tons of problems with alignment and link codes.

Also, for those interested in using browser javascript check codes...the app.version for Netscape 6.0 is NOT 6, but 5. Meaning that if you do not check for version 5 in the javascript you use, then your users with Netscape 6.0 will run into problems.

Also, support for DHTML and javascript1.2 codes have dramatically changed in Netscape 6.0. They no longer support Layers, only DOM codes now, meaning that if you are using older javascript codes with LAYERS for Netscape, you will have to write additional versions of codes to be compatible with the newest version of Netscape.

Bottom line...it is way too buggy for me to upgrade past 4.73.

And I think that this Thread is out of the realm of this particular support forum, so I digress.

Regards,

Eliot Lee