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Simon Hanmer - 27 Jun 2003 10:08 GMT

Hi all,
I'm working on a page at the moment -
http://www.scottish-logcabin.co.uk/calendar.php

It displays as wanted in IE6, nearly as wanted in NN7 and horribly in Opera
7.03

I've run the page through the W3C validator which says everything is valid,
so
was hoping someone here can offer some suggestions as to getting a
cross-browser page
working.

Thanks,
Simon

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek - 27 Jun 2003 11:28 GMT

> Hi all,
> I'm working on a page at the moment -
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> cross-browser page
> working.

Opera supports 'display: inline-table', which you should use instead of
'display: inline' for all those tables.

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Simon Hanmer - 27 Jun 2003 12:59 GMT

[snip - cross-browser problems with
http://www.scottish-logcabin.co.uk/calendar.php ]

> Opera supports 'display: inline-table', which you should use instead of
> 'display: inline' for all those tables.

Rijk, thanks for that - works great in Opera now (at least the version
I've got here).

Can anyone suggest how I can get around the netscape problems?

Thanks,
Simon

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Jacqui or (maybe) Pete - 27 Jun 2003 13:25 GMT

> [snip - cross-browser problems with
> http://www.scottish-logcabin.co.uk/calendar.php ]
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Can anyone suggest how I can get around the netscape problems?

Take all the styling off the html element, take the height & width off
the body element, add an <hr> as the last thing on the page & style it
"clear: both". Or something like that....

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Stephen Poley - 27 Jun 2003 13:23 GMT

>> I'm working on a page at the moment -
>> http://www.scottish-logcabin.co.uk/calendar.php
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>Opera supports 'display: inline-table', which you should use instead of
>'display: inline' for all those tables.

To which I would add the comment that the first few releases of Opera 7
seemed to have rather a lot of bugs (by Opera standards). From the
discussions I've seen, it is better either to stick to Opera 6 or
upgrade to at least 7.10.

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Stan Brown - 27 Jun 2003 20:54 GMT

In article <0ncofvc0705io4lprvjmhhbemdfjpn8p5h@4ax.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Stephen Poley
<sbpoley@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>To which I would add the comment that the first few releases of Opera 7
>seemed to have rather a lot of bugs (by Opera standards). From the
>discussions I've seen, it is better either to stick to Opera 6 or
>upgrade to at least 7.10.

Given how many problems Opera 6 has, that's truly scary.

Let me give you an example. (I've W3C validated both the HTML and
the CSS. Nevertheless these problems might be my fault, and if so
I'd be glad to know what I did wrong.)

I tried printing
http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/instruct/sbrown/stat/smcase6.htm
in Opera 6; (1) lists were in smaller type than normal; (2) tables
in larger type than normal; (3) I got wide gaps between letters and
their adjacent subscripts. (You don't actually have to print; Print
Preview displays the same problems that I see on my paper.)

Mozilla 1.2 doesn't have those problems, but it has others: (4)
Despite page-break-inside:auto it won't page break inside a table;
and (5) it chops off any images that happen to fall near a page
boundary -- which is why I went back and printed using Opera.)

I keep meaning to upgrade my Mozilla (which I hope will fix those
problems), but it seems like 1.4 final is due out so soon that I'm
reluctant to spend the download time for 1.3.

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Jacqui or (maybe) Pete - 28 Jun 2003 11:05 GMT

> In article <0ncofvc0705io4lprvjmhhbemdfjpn8p5h@4ax.com> in
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Stephen Poley
> <sbpoley@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>...
> I tried printing
> http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/instruct/sbrown/stat/smcase6.htm

...

> Mozilla 1.2 doesn't have those problems, but it has others: (4)
> Despite page-break-inside:auto it won't page break inside a table;
> and (5) it chops off any images that happen to fall near a page
> boundary -- which is why I went back and printed using Opera.)
>
> I keep meaning to upgrade my Mozilla (which I hope will fix those

...
With a recent nightly build I get a page break inside the M&M's table &
I don't see any problems with images near a page boundary.

Since I discovered http://www.mozillanews.org/bonsai.php3 I tend to
upgrade pretty regularly - broadband's a wonderful thing.

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Stan Brown - 29 Jun 2003 01:04 GMT

In article <MPG.1967669b6616dcdc989bba@news.CIS.DFN.DE> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Jacqui or (maybe) Pete
<porjes@spamcop.net> wrote:

>> http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/instruct/sbrown/stat/smcase6.htm
>...
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>With a recent nightly build I get a page break inside the M&M's table &
>I don't see any problems with images near a page boundary.

Thanks. I guess I'll download 1.4 as soon as it's available -- hate
to download 1.4RC as I'm on dialup.

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