Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/26/07 20:53

Giggle Girl wrote:
> On Feb 26, 12:21 pm, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
>> On 22 Feb, 18:33, "Giggle Girl" <missgi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I need a frameset that will have the same look and behavior in Firefox
>> Validate it. Validate the HTML, validate the CSS.
>>
>> It might work, it might not. But if it's hard to fix valid code, then
>> it's even harder to fix invalid code, so do it anyway. There is no
>> reason not to, lots of reasons to do so.
>
> I ran code in the URL through a Validator that is a plugin called
> "HTML Validator" in Firefox. Bseides the duplicate ID error, it gave
> me only 16 warnings, every one of which was a "Using proprietary IE
> attribute". Again, if I did NOT use the IE proprietary attributes, it
> would not be possible for me to say "Go to this URL and view it in
> IE. _THAT_ is how I want it to look/behave in Firefox. Can you help
> me?"
>
> You and "dorayme" don't seem to understand this, yet I feel I cannot
> be more clear. Please just ignore this thread. :)
>
> Again, thanks go to Jonathan N. Little who offered something of value
> instead of trying to shout me down with some useless mantra. (I have
> seen enough threads here to know "Run it through a validator" is the
> first line of defense for people that ultimately have the least advice
> to offer.)

I was not condoning what you are trying to do, just pointed out an
inconsistency in your markup. You will never get Firefox to "behave"
like IE is this manner because IE attributes are proprietary to
Microsoft just as styling the chrome elements such as scrollbars!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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