Why Dont Pages Look The Same In Different Browsers or why the viewer doesnt see what i want

this is one of the major problems in webdesign

pages beeing viewed different , and not the way you want them to be diplayed

I sincerly hope there will be a solution for this issue on the interenet soon.

1-Flash is one such solution.

2-and layout of images

3-and probably more solutions exist

the whole html thing got pretty messed up beeing developed

but it worx, and that is what realy counts

as people mention : test youre pages in different browsers and use hackz

to make it work in explorer/netscape

this is realy only a problem if you try using advanced html

new features or scripting languages

(like javascript-->it's not just the ability to see javascript

on a certain client that is an issue, but also if the browser

support methods and such used by the script)

if you keep your code basic -> you will have no headacke (probably that is )

the two solutions mentioned-->

(making an image of the webpage

and

making the webpage in flash)

-->both have good and bad sides

making an image of youre webpage

this is realy straight forward-

you use image editing software like photoshop

and do all the pages there

then you make simple html displaying the images

in position

this way you can be pretty sure the page

looks the same whereever

-problem is that you cant search text which is in the image

-and those that use textbrowsers(who maby dont deserve to see youre page)

making page in flash

great way of making pages

everything you want to do(almost) can bee done in flash

(and a lot of things you did not know you could do)

so there realy is no problem--->

only that not everybody can wiew flash(it is not a standard)

depending on who you are reaching out to with youre webpage

you chose a tool

can they see flash?

do they use silly textbrowsers?

what browsers do they use?

Yeah, I like Flash because it looks nice, does not require the viewer to have the font you made the flash with to have the same effect, and because you can only use one plug-in to view it, which makes it all standard.

I think why they don't display correct in X browser, is because of how it's built. If they were built all the same, there would be copyright infrigement.Also Javascript, and Flash play into it. If your brower doesn't support javascript, and your site has alot of java script then....

The biggest issue in my humble opinion is that one of the popular browsers, and I name IE are not conforming to the W3C standards and you have to create hacks to display correctly in IE. If you develop for IE and then look at the site in Mozilla or Firefox you will see some issues.

In my opinion if you create webiste for cross browser support and develop for the future you should develop toward the W3C standard and use the known tweaks / hacks to get a compareable look in IE. That way your website will conform to new browsers developed and released.

IE was doing OK when it came to catch up to the standard, until they caught up with Netscape. After that it was downhill for IE.

One of the issues is that most people does not run computers with multiple OS's and the different browsers that can be used. One way of testing your website is to sign up for an account (free) here: Your website through the eyes of Aplle's safari browser

and to display the function of multiple browsers (paid service - free trial) Browsercam

And if you have the time and place to look at the different browser that was listed in another post here

Another solution is (I have been told) is to use VMWare or knoppix and "konqueror as surrogate safari" etc etc (I'm no expert on this but It's solutions that can be looked into)

If you are a windows user you can run run multiple versions of IE (standalone) by downloading them from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and click on the download link. Read the instructions there and use the standalone copies to thest only... they are unstable and may crash your M$ OS.

Nils