Monday, July 18, 2005

Other Browser Oddities

Sadly, after all the hardwork in resolving Internet Explorer problems, there are still some other hostile browser environments to tackle. Dealt with in this posting are Netscape 6, Internet Explorer for MAC and Opera (only partially).

furthermore...

Netscape 6

There are still some people using this browser so I needed to fix the problem of a dissappearing DIV - 'fixedfooter' that contains the triangle and 'help, search and home' links. This was solved by adding a specific height for this element in the CSS.

This browser seemed unhappy with the floated logo so I have now made this into a positioned element.

Internet Explorer for MAC

Most things came out as planned but the message added to the HTML for early browsers (actually hidden from any browsers that understand the @import method of delivering CSS) caused IE MAC to leave a space in the place of the text even though the CCS tells the browser to hide it. This was solved by removing all of the white space from the HTML delivering this hidded DIV.

The hover effect on the navigation menu does not work even through the added HTC file. This is a known problem and we have to accept it.

Opera

Several borders seem to double in thickness and I haven't got a solution for this yet.