Anybody know why my site now looks OK in Explorer (except to those who don't like photo backgrounds and therefore hate my baby, j/K) but terrible in Mozilla? Is Moveable Type MS-friendly? It would seem that all the tags would transfer more easily into Mozilla than IE, and not the other way around.
Posted by cmwillis at August 26, 2003 06:31 PM | TrackBackOK, I'll try the positioning, but darn you Mozillards!
Posted by: cmwillis at August 27, 2003 10:12 PMHuh? Dale, I have no idea what you're talking about...
Posted by: cmwillis at August 27, 2003 10:12 PMdoggonit this web page. i added 'brakes' after each 'divv'
Posted by: Dale at August 27, 2003 10:09 PMmovable type automatically tried to use my code, which is why my previous message doesn't make sense. i added "
" after each ""
ok, no seriously. it's fairly obvious that it's laying out all the stuff in the right column right on top of each other and freaking it out. just to see how hard this could be, i saved a copy of your html, added
's after all the 's in the right column. that makes it look better already. so the easy way might be to go in and add enough breaks until it's spaced out. a much better way would be to go into the css file and define an absolute position for each div using something like this:
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 100px
here's a good link: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Posted by: Dale at August 27, 2003 10:06 PMIt's all a part of being a thoughtful, caring citizen of the Internet. Picture yourself as the young Clark Kent in Smallville, or someone more dashing and exciting, like the Green Lantern.
Posted by: Dale at August 27, 2003 09:53 PMhttp://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning;=2&uri;=http%3A//www.chattablogs.com/cmwillis/
Target: http://www.chattablogs.com/cmwillis/
Please, validate your XML document first!
Line 34
Column 10
The reference to entity "nbsp" must end with the ';' delimiter.
HTML and SGML errors can break the parser pretty badly. Also, you don't have any height on your block elements -- I've seen that do it in before. The nbsp in question appears in the title of the front page.
Hope that helps. Use the validator -- when you can get it to validate, that's most of the battle, and they give helpful suggestions.
IE is more flexible than Mozilla, that is, it can properly "read" broken websites. Mozilla is trying to stick very stringently to WC3 standards.
For example, your background image. If you did the tag to set it as your background image in the main index template, such as , mozilla doesn't support that because WC3 dont' support it. You've gotta set it in stylesheet. Dwayne knows how to do it. He taught me all this.
Posted by: JosiahQ at August 27, 2003 09:13 AM