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[journeyman Mick]

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[img src="http://mt2.woodworkforums.com/images/ubeauthead8.jpg" border="0" alt="Woodwork Forums" /][/a]
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It's sad that I know all this crap.

Chris

I'll say! are you sure you don't want to ask one of the mods to delete this post?

Mick

[Grunt]

Oh, I forgot to mention that you need to replace the ['s with <'s and the ]'s with >'s


Chris

[Stuart]

We tried - he's "done sumthin"







(just kidding)

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Personally, I've only noticed three real issues with Firefox's display as compared to IE.

• The fonts, sizes & text positioning alter slightly. No biggy.
• The forum's spiel cheque doesn't work under Firefox
• Firefox doesn't display the "Ads by Google" at the top & bottom of every page. (Which is, by itself, enough reason for me to keep on using FF. )

Anyone got any other differences they know of?

[pawnhead]

Neil's discovered the joys of being a web developer. Trying to get cross browser compatibility is a nightmare. However, Firefox actually follows the W3C standard much more closely than IE6 does. For instance to get the Woodwork forums image centred at the top of the page, if Neil were to replace everything between and including the < center > tags with this code the image will centre correctly. [table border="0" style="100&#37;; padding:" ] [tr] [td style="text-align: center;"] [img border="0" src="images/AULH.gif" width="119" height="104"] [a href="index.php?"] [img src="http://mt2.woodworkforums.com/images/ubeauthead8.jpg" border="0" alt="Woodwork Forums" /][/a] [img border="0" src="images/AURH.gif" width="119" height="104"] [/td] [/tr] [/table] It's sad that I know all this crap. Chris

And if you want the images displayed as they were designed to be, then copy and paste the following into the address bar whilst viewing this page, then press 'Go' : -

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.tan(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+ "px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+" px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

If that doesn't work, then try this one: -

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

edit: - It works with any web page, but if it's not to your liking, then just refresh the page.

[Grunt]

That's exactly what this site needs. Neil should add this to every page.

[Big Shed]

Personally, I've only noticed three real issues with Firefox's display as compared to IE.

• The fonts, sizes & text positioning alter slightly. No biggy.
• The forum's spiel cheque doesn't work under Firefox
• Firefox doesn't display the "Ads by Google" at the top & bottom of every page. (Which is, by itself, enough reason for me to keep on using FF. )

Anyone got any other differences they know of?

Skew, not quite sure what you meand by ads, Google or otherwise. With both browsers there are ads displayed at the top, see picture screens.
There is also a link Ads by Google, is that what you mean?

As far as I can see, the only difference is that Firefox displays a bit more text, obviously because of font differences?

What do you mean by "the forum's spiel cheque"?

Fred

[Wood Butcher]

What do you mean by "the forum's spiel cheque"?

Fred

He means the forum's spell checker

[Big Shed]

He means the forum's spell checker

Ah............he obviously uses Firefox

[pawnhead]

The forum's spiel cheque doesn't work under Firefox

Just download the spellbound spell checker add on. It works on anything you type on any website. You get a squiggly line under every miss spelt word as soon as you type it. It corrects some obvious ones automatically as well. It's just like typing in MSWord.

As far as I can see, the only difference is that Firefox displays a bit more text, obviously because of font differences?

That's because of all the toolbars you've got in IE. I'd like a browser that gives me a totally uncluttered viewing screen of the page I'm on. So far this is as close as I can get. The "Start" task bar reappears when I move the cursor to the bottom of the screen, and I'd like the same thing to happen to the progress bar that's still there. I'd also like to have the same thing happen to the top task bar and the tabs if I'm using tabbed browsing. As for the very top bar, well I don't need to be constantly reminded of who programmed the browser, and I don't need a short description of the page that I'm on since it's right in front of me anyway. The only thing I need is the three buttons on the right, and I'm sure they could be squeezed into the end of the existing bar at the top.

[Big Shed]

F11 in IE does all of that................

Come to think of it, it also does something like that in Firefox, but it doesn't remove the tabs bar, nor the Start bar

[pawnhead]

F11 in IE does all of that................

Come to think of it, it also does something like that in Firefox, but it doesn't remove the tabs bar, nor the Start bar

Yeh I've been told that but it does nothing on mine. I might install IE7 and see what it's like.

On the other hand, I might go the other way and install lots of handy toolbars.

Removing the "Start" bar is a function of Windows, not the browser.

[Big Shed]

I use IE6 with SP1 on Windows2000. Works on both IE and Firefox, with the above exceptions.
Have you tried the menu? Click on View then Full Screen...........

[pawnhead]

I use IE6 with SP1 on Windows2000. Works on both IE and Firefox, with the above exceptions.
Have you tried the menu? Click on View then Full Screen...........

Yeh that worked, but the "Start" bar wouldn't come back and I lost all the controls. F11 did nothing and I had to reboot . I suppose I'll just stick to what I've got.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Skew, not quite sure what you meand by ads, Google or otherwise. With both browsers there are ads displayed at the top, see picture screens.
There is also a link Ads by Google, is that what you mean?

Yep. I don't see them. Neither at the top of my page, nor at the bottom..

Now that I think on it, that's thanks to using one of the Javascript permission plugins for FireFox and not FF itself. (I'm directing google's scripts to the bit-bucket.) Still, in my books it's makes for a major improvement... doesn't my screenshot look so much more neater? And as a bonus, there's less scrolling!

As for the spiel chequer, why DL another toolbar clutterer when FF has a decent plugin to do the same job? If only they wouldn't assume that we Aussies use an Americanised dictionary... (and yes, I did DL the Aussie dictionary to go with it! )