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@NogDogFeb 15.2009 — #Before blaming browsers, start by fixing all your HTML errors and then your CSS error .@NogDogFeb 15.2009 — #Regardless of blame or origin, if the mark-up is invalid, then you may be forcing the browser to "guess" what your intentions are. While the standards are pretty specific on what user agents should do in specific mark-up circumstances, when they have to guess and make assumptions due to invalid mark-up, then there is no guarantee that any two will make the same guesses/assumptions.
In general it has been my experience that if the HTML/CSS is error-free with a valid, fully qualified DOCTYPE declaration as the first line (so that IE is not in "tweaks mode"), 99.99% of browser differences disappear (at least when using reasonably current browsers).
Unfortunately web authors have been spoiled by web browsers that let them get away with invalid mark-up. If you were to write a computer program with syntax errors, it would most likely not run/compile at all. Browsers instead just do the best they can.
Safari doesn’t like me
Here’s the site…
[url]http://bbwaa.com
The layout looks fine on Explorer, but on Safari the little nav box on the left drops below the content in the middle. I’m sure this is something simple, but I don’t understand why it’s working on Explorer.
I should add that the Safari I used to check was on my iPhone.
This is just wordpress blog template that I twisted into being a standard web site, not a blog.
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@NogDogFeb 15.2009 — #In general it has been my experience that if the HTML/CSS is error-free with a valid, fully qualified DOCTYPE declaration as the first line (so that IE is not in "tweaks mode"), 99.99% of browser differences disappear (at least when using reasonably current browsers).
Unfortunately web authors have been spoiled by web browsers that let them get away with invalid mark-up. If you were to write a computer program with syntax errors, it would most likely not run/compile at all. Browsers instead just do the best they can.