ashlee_s_man
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2 first versions releashed a couple months ago, i decided 2 download and feel FINE wat do U guys think ???
Cman said:The only issue i have ever had with Firefox is streaming video codecs. other than that it works perfectly.
Some of the advantages of Firefox may not be obvious to "surfers" which is why its not more popular, but to webmasters its a gift from heaven. the reason being that Firefox actually interprets HTML AND CSS PROPERLY!!
IE has a nasty habit of guessing about a lot of code and pretty much displaying it however it wants, regardless of the values you've set.
The reason why sites act different in Firefox and IE is because, as I said, each browser interprets them different.Preferred User said:Yea we have pretty different perspectives cman. Streaming video is an issue with Firefox. I don't know how it interprets HTML but I hear other web guys say the same thing you do. I haven't kept a list of sites, but when I've tried to make FF my default browser, there have been too many geek type sites where I couldn't reach downloads or navigate...even with the little IE tab thing. The only solution was to bring up IE and that solved it. I always use FF here because the pages load faster...no question.
Exactly. IE just makes shit up. Einstein would have a heart attack if he was a webmaster lolonerythym said:its as if IE makes up its own math.
Cman said:i guess you could say that, but i dont' really know how to explain it. i don't know WHY IE does the things it does, all i know is the pain i've endured to work around it. i can give you a couple examples.
In CSS you can specify how far apart you want your lines of text. This setting is called "line-height". IE doesn't like this setting.
In Firefox and others properly coded browsers, there is a difference between "line-height: 135%" and "line-height: 138%". IE chooses to ignore math and there is only a noticeable different in IE about every 10% or so.
In addition to the "every 10%" rule, there are other problems. Say for example you have it set at 150% and lets asssume that IE chooses to recognize it. You may notice that there is still more space in IE, than in Firefox, even though they are reading the same code, because IE has a different definition of how much 1% or 1 line is.
For a real life example of this, have a look at www.cman.net in Firefox and IE. You will notice the paragrahs on the front page are spaced a little differently. This is because of IE.
Its a tough thing to explain to non-webmasters lol
probably not. microsoft likely doesn't care about cross-browser compatibility because they probably believe that everyone should use IE in the first place.UltraLisk said:Maybe IE7 will work better (at least with XHTML)....
thats the problem. i could care less about the visible differences, its the code i care about.onerythym said:most likey just superfical things such as tabbed browsing. prob very little to do with other funtionality and the actual "code quality" of thier program..