One Of These Browsers Are Not Like The Other Problem with display in Opera

I've created a text image (also known as ASCII art) on a website, compliant with W3C Standards including CSS and only 2 out of the 3 Browsers I've tested display correctly.

IE displays correctly and Firefox displays correctly.

Opera however doesn't display correctly, it's quite oversized, seems to be a lack of support for CSS.

Am I being correct in saying that or could there be more problems. I've used Web Safe Fonts so that shouldn't be the problem, the problem seems to be that Opera cannot display very small text, in fact lower around 1pt or 1px.

Here's the site, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ remember the so-called image is built up of coloured text and is roughly 30,000 characters so it's 30KB in size, plus the overhead of HTML so it's a pretty large site just for something that may look simple.

It's not text-browser friendly!!!

Any ideas how I would resolve Opera's display problems?


Cheers,


MC

Any ideas how I would resolve Opera's display problems?

Cheers,

MC

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Umm ... what can I say?? I had a peek at the site. I'm using a debian distro with firefox. I saw a very strange looking little graphic in the upper right corner. I could just make out that the grahic was a computer with your nick alongside. There were no colors detectable.

Interesting concept. What possessed you to try such a tedious exercise? I'd be interested in seeing a screen shot from your cmoputer showing how the page looks to you.

cheers

hashbang

I haven't tested it on Linux yet, currently doing it in Windows but will eventually see what it's like under Linux.

Screenshot taken from Firefox on Windows XP:

(above is similar to the view on IE)

Screenshot taken from Opera on Windows XP:

Screenshot taken from Firefox on Fedora Core 3 (Linux):

Demonic Possession I guess

I'll just jump over to Linux and see what it looks like and see if I can fix the problem from there.

OK well my view on Linux, Firefox and Epiphany display similarly, which is the actual image, faded in colour, and in some places not the correct colour, seriously don't know where to begin on fixing this. Konqueror font-size seems to be normal sized, meaning it did not work with part of the CSS to make the font smaller. Although it still looks alright, just way oversized too.

Cheers,

MC

The first is in Mozilla, xphthis is IELooks OK on both for me.Nils

It appeared absolutely fine on my IE and Firefox too.. mastercomp, what ascii art sw are you using ? I had loads of them back in the DOS days when i used to run the dialup Bulletin Boards... so long out of touch

Thanks

Bloody hell.... that's pretty.....But isn't better to use just a picture?

Ummm....I don't know what to say here...But I've got te most updated version of IE and i got the same view problem as opera...but my screen resolution is set 2 almost its max....Could that be the problem? take into consideration screen resolutions

OK well my intensions is to find what works best with different browsers, as I hate designing for all the different browsers if each one will give me different results, in the end I will only support browsers who are kept up with W3C, there's no reason not to put that as a priority.The software I used was called ASCII Art, an Image to ASCII convertor that could create HTML and CSS, although I had to edit hundreds of lines to make it W3C compliant as well as shifting the styles over to it's own file.I've got to run a few more tests on all these browsers, trying to target specifically where the problem lies, I'm a bit shocked at the state that Firefox came out on Fedora, it's the right size, just discoloured.So far Firefox is true to W3C and I've heard they're already started supporting CSS3, infact when I made a mistake in the CSS file, wasn't a big mistake IE decided to display it correctly, Firefox ignored the problem which I could see where the problem lied. If I trusted IE on that, I would have never corrected Firefox's display problem which comes to another conclusion, if you don't develop for all browsers you might not be seeing the incompatibilities.Now what I need to do is write up different pages for Opera, testing out as much CSS I can to figure out who, what, where, why and how.MC

It works fine for me on both Firefox and IE for me.I don't know really have to help you though, not my sort of thing really. Sorry if I've been no use to you.