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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 08/09/07 01:24
jaschreiber@gmail.com wrote:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:16:09 GMT
>> scribed:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm working on a website that is has one main div that contains
>>> all the page elements, and a single background image behind it.
>>> the site works great in Mozilla, Safari, Opera, etc, and according
>>> to Dreamweaver there are no browser compatibility issues with IE
>>> either, but for some reason the only thing that displays in IE is
>>> the background image. no main div, no nothing. totally empty page.
>>> ...
>>> the page is in QA at
>>> http://www.octotronic.com/jeanschreiber/test.html
>>
>> Ie doesn't do xhtml.
The page is being served as "Content-Type: text/html" so there is some
other problem in there. Internet Explorer will throw up if you do really
serve XHTML as "application/xhtml+xml"
> thank you!!
Instead of just commenting out the DOCTYPE - which throws browsers into
quirks mode, you should switch to HTML 4.01 Strict. This is a new page,
correct? You only use Transitional when you are .. well .. Transitioning
a legacy document and you don't want to update all the presentational
HTML yet.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Now, about all those microfonts, see this as well, and also note the
section on Verdana:
http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
Your little font size switcher fails if JavaScript is disabled or
stripped by my corporate firewall. Just use 100% and everyone gets their
own chosen size.
Your attempt at pixel-perfect design is bound to fail in some
situations...
Please don't top-post. Thanks for your consideration.
--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
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