Hello NG again,
after messing a bit around, I got a quite satisfying result on my page which
works good for both, MSIE and Firefox. Now I rebuilt the page in my CMS and
checked it again for HTML4 vailidity and got a positive result. In fact,
HTML-Conform always meant for me: Looks good on every browser.
No, html is for structuring your content. Has nothing to do with looks, although
mistakes can influence looks because they cause wrong rendering.
Besides, how do you make your pages look good in Lynx, in other plaint text
browsers, in braille browsers or in aural browsers? Well structured and valid
pages guarantee that they can be accessed and used in all sorts of browsers.
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/ce-page/
If you look at this link, it actually doesn't at all. Any explainations whats
actually wrong or how to work it out?
Well, for one: the page is in quirks mode:
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http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/doctypes.html>
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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/29/quirks_mode>
Secondly, never expect to be able to render a pixel perfect design exactly the
same in all browsers out there. Just make sure it works everywhere (correct
markup) and looks nice in the modern and mainstream graphical browsers (for
other OS than just Windows too). It doesn't really matter if it looks the same
in various browsers or not, because your visitor has the habit of coming to your
pages with just one browser anyway. If it works in that browser and looks kinda
nice, it's fine with that visitor, so it should be fine for you too.
What helps is to make a page design as flexible and fluid as possible:
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http://www.google.com/search?q=liquid+OR+fluid+design>
What also helps is to internalise the idea that your control on how your pages
are rendered is actually very little. All one can do is provide properly
structured and meaningful markup and some nice CSS to create the looks and feel
for the mainstream graphical UA.
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