W3C CSS and HTML...

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Registered User
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Howdy do,

In my excitement learning and working with Your Products...
Some number of nice clean Coding rules, have been passed up....
Plus not thoroughly familiar with HTML and CSS codes..
From scratch...

http://www.the-web-seeker.com/Reg70Reg3k/index.html
ONLY THIS SCREEN CERTIFY's

The above link does certify CSS and HTML as per first Code statements,
and "After" I used Tidy up... on the code...

Now I can read the Tidied code and see the changes and cleanup,
but bottom line..

What does this do for me/us...

There is only a few display problems, but thats enough to stop me in my tracks.

Based on the "Old" days... extra code not "Seemingly" doing
anything... I eliminate...

VSD creates tables around text items... with my understanding.
thats a container... also div is a container...

http://www.the-web-seeker.com/index.html
ONLY THIS SCREEN CERTIFY's

In the above link, I fixed couple of declarations items...
Then eliminated all the Table/div combinations...

In FF and IE 7 runs just fine for me, on my host... and some untold number of other folks...

Big thing I had missed was the XML declaration....

Anyway, doing the above things... did this for my
few Browser problem areas....

I did learn to declare 10pt or 12pt within CSS menu's so screen text changes dont enlarge and overrun menu buttons...

Now I spent many hours "Searchin" "Searchin" IE grey areas...
Was amazed what a large field of information came up...

Then on top of the I'm learning more about internals on the
browsers than I ever wanted to know... Settings many settings...

All three of my problem folks are running IE7....
One person is about 40 miles from me... I sat at her terminal
and did some number of display changes, and combinations to
no avail....And refresh's by the way..

So without writing a book IE display solutions...??? are
just there..dont expect easy solution.

Now with the "certifications" "passed" by W3C seems to me
the displays should work OK...

Obviously thats not the case...

Next question then is the W3C certification more like a good
housekeeping seal of approval, to allow me to put their
stamps on my site/s....

That may make a customer feel good, but if screen display is
all screwed up Thzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Am I frustrated, a bit...

I'm dead in my tracks until I can solve at least the bulk of
this problem...

I'm a FireFox fan thru and thru, due to my slow dialup...
But IE is the dominate thing out there... so gotta stay with that
flow....

Thank you,

Seeker
"Our Home is Over the next Hill" Johnny Cash
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Seeker,

Validating your code shows that you have met the W3C standards, and they are the ones that say how the codes should work. So the validation indicates that any browser that adheres to the standards will display as you designed. If you don't have code that validates, there is the possibility of being in quirks mode, and then there is no telling how the page will display.

This is just my understanding of the situation, and could be that I am out of my mind. I seem to be having trouble keeping the little monster in line.
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They are validations not certifications.

1. Don't worry too much about "warnings", they don't affect your site.
2. Do worry about "errors", they do affect your site.

Firefox, Opera, Safari all conform to the W3C web standards in the way they display your pages, IE does not.

IE7 does a fairly good job but is still not conforming, IE8 (now in beta) does a much better job of conforming and passes most of the Acid 2 tests for standards conformance.

If you write your web pages to conform to standards, you are future proofing your site and your knowledge.

Mike....
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http://www.wpdfd.com
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99% of the time if your html looks different in IE than FF, it is not because MS does not adhere to standards but your code. If your code adheres to standards, than it will most likely look render the same in both browsers.
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