Compatible html coding for IE and Firefox

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Hi,

I’m having trouble designing a site to display properly in both IE and Firefox.

The company that i work for has a policy that we make sure that sites display properly in IE first and foremost.

However, as hard as i try i cannot get the current site that i am working on to display properly in both IE and Firefox. Their isn’t major problems just lining things up etc.

I generally use tables for laying out the site.

i was wondering if anyone knows of a list of incompatiblities between the 2 browsers? or have i fallen into the trap of lazy coding in IE?

any links or tools that could help me would be gratly appreciated.

many thanks

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hmm, i’ve encountered one issue
firefox does not display the attribute bgcolor
u have to declare a CSS class to get the webpage to render the background color
otherwise it just displays white
firefox forces CSS implementation, i think

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a google search will reveal your answer. Also if the requirement is IE. Why shoot for FF? It is still hovering around 1% of the market share. Maybe have a browser sniffer redirect the user to a page that tells them to use IE. Or have a version which dgrades garcefully. There are many ways around this. But search first.

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firefox isn’t near 1% anymore :wink:

according to cnet: 18 were using gecko based… I can’t find any more detail than that

edit: that’s the records to http://www.w3schools.com/
from: http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Firefox+on+the+hunt/2009-1083_3-5370629.html?tag=nefd.top

I can’t remember, but I don’t think bgcolor is correct, css is definately the best way to do it, and tables are wacko :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Well you could atleast show an example of what wrong. Tell we can assess the situation. You shouldnt use tables, divs more but its ok when your lazy.

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Do you know how many gecko based browsers there are? Gecko based browser is a general term. Take a look at all the gecko based browsers (keep in mind NS is gecko based as well)
http://www.mozilla.org/university/HOF.html

The youth of America today :h: :to:

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funny to also note see how many fixes have been issued since firefox was dloaded? Which means it is not the Second Coming if you know what I mean. Wait till mozilla gains ground everyone is going to start bashing it…lol.

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You shouldn’t be coding HTML with attributes like that now-a-days.
Friefox is ahead of it’s time, while most designers are moving on Firefox is already there.
CSS should be a key part of any webpage on the net now.
Even IE, bloody microsoft…