Posted by Mark Parnell on 01/20/06 01:14

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, René Kabis
<rene@kabis.org> spouted in alt.html.critique,alt.html,alt.discuss.html:

[alt.discuss.html removed as it doesn't exist on my news server]
> If anyone has the site crap out on them with IE, could they please
> provide me with full machine stats (HW, O/S, Software, etc.) so I can
> determine if it is a version, software or o/s issue.

> Btw, the site is http://rene.kabis.org/

IE6, Win2k here. Looks mostly OK, except the top banner has a grey
section above and below it (IE doesn't support alpha transparency in
PNGs), and the content drops below the navigation when I increase the
font size.

In both FF and IE, there is a huge space over the left side (yes,
there's a sunflower there, but it still looks odd), while the right side
is right up against the side of the browser. I keep looking for a
horizontal scrollbar to try and get to the rest of the right side of the
page. I think a large part of that is the green banner - it looks like
it keeps going beyond the right side of the page. I have my screen
resolution fairly high, and you're only using about half the available
width of my browser, particularly in IE (in FF I have a sidebar open, so
it isn't quite so bad). This makes your page much longer than it needs
to be, as well as looking odd as explained above.

It does look nice though. :-)

As far as under the hood goes, XHTML 1.1 is not suitable for use on the
WWW - it *must* be served as application/xml+xhtml, which IE can't
handle. HTML4.01 is the best option (and it would take minimal work to
convert it). Having said that, your (X)HTML validates, with just one
warning (unescaped &). You do have one error and a handful of warnings
in your CSS though.

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