[WEB4LIB] Problems with New Web Page and IE 5.0

[N. Lynn Schlatter]

I have bad news and good news.

The bad news is, I can't see the problem with your coding.

The good news is, I have IE 5.0 installed on my Win2K machine here at work,
and both the links you provided look fine.  So at least you don't have to
worry that you're shutting out _all_ IE5 users while you try to fix it.

Lynn Schlatter
Instructional Coordinator
Shreve Memorial Library
www.shreve-lib.org


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Robyn Barker
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Problems with New Web Page and IE 5.0


I'm in the process of re-making the Library Web site for the Institute
-- mostly to be more user friendly.  I use 1st Page 2000 -- but mostly I
hand code.  I've been trying to incorporate CSS as much as possible and
to the extent I can understand it.  I began using HTML 4.01
Transitional, but have tried using XHTML 1.0 (as suggested here) for
more recent pages.  I attempt to validate pages after creation using the
W3C Validator.  Mostly the pages validate, but occasionally they don't
because of tags I use so that the pages work in Netscape 4.08.

I've loaded Netscape 4.08 and the latest version of Mozilla to join the
IE 6.0 already on my computer and check each page to make sure they look
reasonable on each of these browsers.  Finally, the Institute uses
Windows 2000, so I rely on ASP to run the SSI (my navigation bar), to
power my forms, and to insert the date when the page was updated.

So far, everything seemed to be working fine.  But I was horrified to
find that some of my pages are completely falling apart on the IE 5.0 I
run on my home computer.  They stretch out for an almost infinite
distance horizontally.  The ultimate Web faux pas.  I've gone over the
code several times and can find nothing wrong.  We're very small -- I'm
the lone techie in the Library

I would really appreciate another pair of eyes!

Page that behaves:  http://library.ciis.edu/newsite/resources/index.asp

One page that does not:
http://library.ciis.edu/newsite/services/index.asp

Thanks so much for any help!

Robyn Barker
Systems Librarian
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA  94103