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Favour please: site/browser checking
« on: April 29, 2004, 06:43:18 PM »
I've recently designed my new little website, www.mikeymike.org.uk .  I have some Javascript to detect IE and a (more lame) stylesheet specifically for IE and one for all other browsers.

I'd like to be sure the site views reasonably well across as many browsers as possible.  So far I've tested in Firefox, Mozilla, Opera 7x, and IE6.
 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2004, 08:52:16 PM »
i can't get on...and i've tried several times.
i'll keep trying...
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2004, 08:54:31 PM »
Really?  Can you post or email me a traceroute please?

Anyone else having these problems?

Though I wonder... the domain name is newly registered... maybe DNS hasn't fully propagated to the unfashionable backwaters of the Internet :-)
 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2004, 09:40:31 PM »
Works fine here with Opera 7.23 and apparently Java is not installed on my machine (according to Opera's about, not your site ;-)
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2004, 09:43:45 PM »
You don't need Java for Javascript to work.  Entirely seperate languages.
 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2004, 11:29:58 PM »
And I always forget that :-)
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2004, 11:37:00 PM »
Works fine for me with:
OS X - Safari
Red Hat - Mozilla

No problems here.
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2004, 12:48:17 AM »
A quick check in Mozilla 1.4(Linux i686) and Konqueror 3.1.4 looks fine.
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2004, 01:04:34 AM »
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mikeymike wrote:
I've recently designed my new little website, www.mikeymike.org.uk .  I have some Javascript to detect IE and a (more lame) stylesheet specifically for IE and one for all other browsers.

I'd like to be sure the site views reasonably well across as many browsers as possible.  So far I've tested in Firefox, Mozilla, Opera 7x, and IE6.
Heres an exotic one...

I'm viewing your page using Safari! (On OS X, of course)

On a very new iMac, with a wide 17" display, running at 1440x900.

I don't know what it is supposed to look like :lol: however it seems fine here.

:-)
 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2004, 01:26:07 AM »
Hum,
JUST checked it with explore 6 and mozilla7.1b and it looked ok...
However when i loaded it up with ibrowse 2.3 it was a `tad- bit` boring...darkgray background, no graphics, though you could see all the links and navigate around the site (unlike some sites i know about...)

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2004, 10:45:45 AM »
Yeah, I noticed a few people had been to the site with IBrowse :-)  What can I say.  A browser with no CSS.  To cater for it would mean I'd have to do something horrible with the site, like use frames.  Or start the design from scratch.

But, the site is browsable with IBrowse, that's the best you're gonna get :-)

If there were some quick hack I could do, like I have for IE to work, I would do so.

 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2004, 11:18:42 AM »
Works fine with Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Windows XP.
It works with IE6, but fixed blocks does not work! :-x
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2004, 11:54:49 AM »
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It works with IE6, but fixed blocks does not work!

Que?
 

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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2004, 12:04:36 PM »
ok, i got on and my Opera sees it just fine - of course.
and your site looks quite lovely. classy stuff. :pint:  :banana:

I've used the 'redirect' thing on my site for years as i am aware that alot of my viewers are using amiga browsers. So, at some point I decided to add a little css to my pages - mixed with tables and such. so, my stuff is still readable with amiga browsers but looks fine with Opera.
Opera is more code compliant than IE, so I use the mozilla-type browsers as my standards.

anyway, i hate IE and never use it. it sucks :admonish:
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Re: Favour please: site/browser checking
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2004, 12:11:54 PM »
Cecelia, thank you for the compliment :-)

Back to IBrowse again - The problem with IBrowse is its lack of CSS support, and so no support for div tags.  I'm not a decent web designer by any stretch of the definition, but the only two ways I can think of to implement the design I came up with in an Ibrowse compatible fashion would be by either tables or frames.  Tables mean difficult to maintain code and frames just suck.  I have designed complex tables before, that's not a problem, but I want to add stuff to the website from time to time, and I don't want that to be a tedious and boring experience.

My previous site (www.legolas.com/mikes/) allowed for IBrowse but web design is one of the few ways for me to express my creative urges, I can't just keep coming up with really basic looking websites.

One thing I'm proud of with my new site (the one I asked for people to browsertest) is that none of the graphics (except for the IE screenshot graphic) are over 1KB in size :-)