I’m pretty unhappy about the way web standards are treated. There are some fundamental spacing differences between Firefox and IE that make things a headache to try to get aligned. For example, in IE, if you specify the width of something to be say…800px, and specify padding to be 10px on all sides, the width remains at 800px. With Firefox, the width of the element expands to 820px (800 + 10 + 10). Frankly, I think the IE implementation makes more sense.
I remember there were issues with IE and Netscape way back in the day when the competition was between IE 4.0 and NS 4.73 (or was it 4.72). When working with frames, IE took the specified height and width and made things exact. Netscape, on the other hand, tended to change every single time that you refreshed the window. It was ridiculous. Frames were never lined up properly. This is probably why tables became the tool of choice when doing webpage layout.
Anyway, I’ve now fixed my pages that were misbehaving in Firefox. I had to find some sort of comprimise where they wouldn’t look broken in either browser, and still look somewhat decent. I think I’ve reached that point…either that or I’m just tired of working on the damn things.
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