Tuesday, May 6, 2008

New Web page

Well I've done it. I converted the webpage to international standards using style sheets. This standard has been around for almost 10 years but because of the different browsers that are used it took quite a while for it to take hold. Now there are basically 3 main browsers out there: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari. There are a few others that hold very minor place in the browser world but all of them, except for Microsoft's IE, follow the standards set out by ISO for web pages. I primarily work with Firefox in Linux OS and get everything to work in that. Then I convert it to work in Internet Explorer. The styles and commands I used were documented to work for both IE and Firefox but when I checked out the site using Mary's Windows XP computer with Internet Explorer 7 installed I found that the documentation was wrong. The page looks great in Firefox and Opera but visit it with IE5 or IE6 and the opening page shifts to the left. IE7 holds the positions correctly but one of the slide out menus doesn't display. I checked the scripts to make sure I had them in the correct places and everything seems to be alright. It's just Microsoft trying to force their way on us and I wont have it. I sure don't understand how they are allowed to market a browser that doesn't meet standards this long after the standards were agreed to. Anyhow, it's up and I like it. Maybe the next time I upload a page I'll add a remark to use anything but Internet Explorer.

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