different browsers

[Petter Naess]

Reply to the message of Wednesday December 10, 1997 01:31 +0100
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Gary L. Fraser III wrote:

> I realize this is a fairly novice question, but....
>
> I am far from an HTML expert, but I do the webpages for my library and
have
> been running into an irritating problem. I've viewed the pages in IE
3.02
> and 4.0, and in Netscape 3.0 and 4.0. It looks different in each. I keep
> experimenting with different font sizes, but I can't seem to find one
that
> looks ok no matter what the browser. The really frustrating part is that
> the computer that I do all the editing on (IE 3.02) looks ok and then I
> view it on another terminal (also IE 3.02) and the script is much
smaller.
> I can't understand this problem in particular. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Gary
>
>
> Gary L. Fraser III
> gfraser at intermind.net
> Henderson District Public Libraries
> 280 Water Street
> Henderson, NV 89109
>


Hi Gary - you might be interested in an article about browser
compatibility in the December 1997 issue of "Inside the Internet" ("Going
for the numbers: making your web site browser-compatible", pp.8-10). I
don't think the issue is available online, but the article recommends
several sites that address the compatibility problem from different
angles:

www.browsercaps.com/config/Cv/index.html (tells you about the various html
handling abilities of different browsers)

www.delorie.com/web/purify (allows you to purify your page to selected
html specifications)

www.threetoad.com/main/browser.html (uses screen shots to show how
different browsers render a particular page)

browserwatch.internet.com (gives you statistics on the relative popularity
of different browsers)

Regards, Petter Naess


Petter Naess
Information Resource Center
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American Embassy
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email pnaess at usis.no