Classified Adds

Edited By AES on 04/07/2011 15:31:56

Hi

Just to give you another view of things, using Win XP and Opera as the browser the classifieds all show up perfectly.

Before you blame the web page author you should be aware that Microsoft considers itself to be above and beyond following internationally agreed protocols for thing such as web page rendering, and to be fair most of the other browsers to a lesser extent don't render everything exactly as they should either. Having written a website, what took the longest was getting the pages to render acceptably in different browsers, and then I was checking in IE7, Firefox and Opera. Getting Firefox and Opera right was a doddle compared to sorting IE7. Also I wonder why IE9 needs a "compatability mode" to emulate IE8, if it was written correctly it would be able to render IE8 compatible pages from the off - have Microsoft never heard of "backwards compatability"?

Keith

ps Web pages are already in existence - it's down to the writer of the BROWSER to make sure that EXISTING pages are rendered correctly NOT down to the web page owner to change to match the new browser. New web pages are a different matter, if the author wishes to take advantage of new rendering methods/ techniques on offer then fine, BUT they MUST check that all browsers render the pages correctly.