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website help
2008-01-28, 9:59 PM #1
Ok, So I decided to re-do my website recently when I was bored, I went through from scratch, made a style sheet and tried to make a valid website.

I succeeded, the site looks great!...

in firefox, What would happen in IE is that the tables would completly mess up, tables below each other would appear overtop of other tables, I googled this problem and is said to put my tables that are above each other into seperate cells of a table that holds them all... so I tried, but it's still borked.

the tables display in the proper order, but the headers for the page content is all screwed up.

http://www.gasstudios.com <- thats the site, it displays properly in Firefox, I have not tested it in anything else (feedback appreciated), does anyone have any clue how to fix it for displaying reasonably in IE without re-coding the entire thing?
The Gas Station
2008-01-28, 10:29 PM #2
Originally posted by Grant:
the site looks great!...

in firefox, What would happen in IE is that


Yeah, that's pretty much standard. 10% of your time is making the website look great on standards-compliant browsers, the other 90% of the time is spent making it work on IE.

At least when IE8 comes out you can force standards-compliance mode by adding a non-standard tag into your HTML header! :awesome:
2008-01-28, 10:47 PM #3
yeah, great...but what about everyone else that can't ditch IE... grr... is there any way to fix it? trick the browser into looking right? I don't know....
The Gas Station
2008-01-28, 10:56 PM #4
Check the user agent string and serve a different page for IE?
2008-01-29, 12:32 AM #5
Your page is like a car with doors for seats and seats for doors, it's still a car legally but you're using parts in the wrong places.

If you're going to use tables for layout, there's no point going to the trouble of making it validate.
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2008-01-29, 2:32 AM #6
Actually, I'm not sure that would still legally be a car, as I don't think it would be allowed to be on the public roads. But that's semantics: your analogy may be questionable but your point is valid :v:
2008-01-29, 5:11 AM #7
Originally posted by Jon`C:
At least when IE8 comes out you can force standards-compliance mode by adding a non-standard tag into your HTML header! :awesome:

It's just a meta tag actually.
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2008-01-29, 5:25 AM #8
Originally posted by Giraffe:
Actually, I'm not sure that would still legally be a car, as I don't think it would be allowed to be on the public roads. But that's semantics: your analogy may be questionable but your point is valid :v:


I'm sure if you coerced the doors and seats into each others positions and made sure the seat belts were done then you could make it road legal. But it's probably best to go with the easier option of using doors for doors and seats for seats :)
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