Problem in Firefox

[dismaldonkey]

Hi

I am designing a new site but seem to be having some problems when it comes to compatability between IE and Firefox.

If you look at the site HERE , in IE it appears fine, but in Firefox the dotted line around the quote is missing (minor point) and in the menu the mouseover text doesn't show and only the text acts as a link, not the whole box as in IE (major point).

Any ideas as to how I can fix this?

Cheers

 

[lemmin]

Firefox is so dumb. My site wont work with it either.

I would try putting your mouseup event code in a div inside the td. divs have an inherant 100% width value that will span the length of the row.

Does javascript even work in Firefox? People tell me it does, but not one single line of my jscript code seems to work in Firefox (so I've been told). If the jscript code is whats making it not work, I have no idea how to fix it. Well, I have one idea. Can you put a td in an a link? try to put the whole <a> tag around each td that the nav links are in, no idea if that will work or not.

 

[JakeA]

You can easily create buttons which are compatible in modern browsers using CSS.

You can find a CSS button generator here: http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/css-menu-generator.shtml

You can read more about CSS buttons here: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

 

[aaronfalloon]

Firefox is so dumb. My site wont work with it either.

FireFox is great all my sites seem to work well in it, you should check what your site looks like in both browsers before releasing it.

 

[shadow_boi]

maybe we should do a survey to see what kind of broswers do visiters use the most
then just dont worry about the minority.(lazy method)

 

[lemmin]

I log everyone that goes to my site so I get some statistics and I'm quite surprised that only 15 out of the 37 people that have viewed my site, use MSIE compatible. I think that is because the majority of the viewers are from this site.

I personally think FireFox is no better than IE, infact worse. I think people only use FireFox because they want to be one of those anti microsoft people. I've asked people to explain why it's so much better than IE and so far they can't. The only two reasons I've ever heard are that you don't get spyware and you can use tabs. You don't get spyware because FireFox isn't running the controls that most spyware installs through, you can dissable them just the same in IE. Who says IE doesn't tab browse? It's right down on the task bar. Ctrl+N, look, tab browsing .

Maybe this should be it's own thread, but I want someone to explain why FireFox is so much better.

 

[dismaldonkey]

I personally don't think Firefox is any better or worse than IE. I only compare the sites I do in both browsers as they are the top 2 according to my stats.

I have managed to suss out the dotted border problem. Still no luck on the menu side. I'll have a look at the css button generator (thanks JakeA).

 

[lemmin]

You didnt try the <a> link?

i just tested the following code, and it works. All you need to do is make the cursor change.

<table border=1>
<tr>
<a href="omglink"><td width=200>hi</td></a>
</table>

clicking anywhere on that td opens the link.

 

[LeetPCUser]

I see the dotted line around the quote I just don't see the rollover text. I have some of the coding to fix that. If you pm me I can give you the css code. You are using CSS right?

 

[Andromeda]

yeah.. there are things that need to be fixed.. I am having problems with FF too... images don't show ... they should have left an x mark indicating that the pic is not working....

 

[Shorty]

FireFox makes my designs look rather ugly. If/when I release a website i'll be making reccomendations to use IE to view it...

 

[NuPagady]

yeah.. there are things that need to be fixed.. I am having problems with FF too... images don't show ... they should have left an x mark indicating that the pic is not working....

FireFox makes my designs look rather ugly. If/when I release a website i'll be making reccomendations to use IE to view it...

You just need to figure out how to make it look good using both ie and FF. In most cases firefox is not guilty for ugly looking site. It's desingner's fault.

 

[SquireQuack]

Firefox is so dumb. My site wont work with it either.

Actually...firefox is built to be standard compliant. So your probably trying to use a microsoft specific feature.

 

[Shorty]

That's not really fair, NuPagady...My sites look 100% perfect in IE. Just because some browser doesn't display it the way I want to doesnt mean i'm a bad designer.

 

[Rowan W]

That's not really fair, NuPagady...My sites look 100% perfect in IE. Just because some browser doesn't display it the way I want to doesnt mean i'm a bad designer.

This page looks perfect in Internet Explorer but when I load it in <insert name of browser here> it gets it all wrong. What is wrong with <insert name of browser here>? Stupid <insert name of browser here> with its useless <Choose; JavaScript|HTML|CSS> support."

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Does javascript even work in Firefox? People tell me it does, but not one single line of my jscript code seems to work in Firefox (so I've been told). If the jscript code is whats making it not work, I have no idea how to fix it.

I believe not by default. You have to enable it with options or an extension for Java itself.

Nothing you can control as a web publisher. IE users can disable javascipt, all scripts, or Java as well, but it's generally not the default.