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Why is my page displayed differently on Mac vs. PC browsers? Michael Levin 02-24-2006
Posted by Michael Levin on February 24, 2006, 9:50 pm
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I have a very simple page, which shows 3 Quicktime movies in a table. I
think I'm using just standard simple HTML. In Netscape or Safari on a Mac,
they look fine. In Internet Explorer on a PC, the bottom of the movies are
cut off (size issues with the table cells). Could someone look at the html
here

http://server.drmichaellevin.org/worm_supplement.html

and tell me why this is different on different platforms?

If you don't want to go to the URL, the code is this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="75%" border="1">
<tr><td>Control</td><td>PCPA</td><td>Reserpine</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement1.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement2.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement3.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Thanks in advance!

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Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net


Posted by Roy Schestowitz on February 25, 2006, 4:02 am
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__/ [ Michael Levin ] on Saturday 25 February 2006 02:50 \__

> I have a very simple page, which shows 3 Quicktime movies in a table. I
> think I'm using just standard simple HTML. In Netscape or Safari on a Mac,
> they look fine. In Internet Explorer on a PC, the bottom of the movies are
> cut off (size issues with the table cells). Could someone look at the html
> here
>
> http://server.drmichaellevin.org/worm_supplement.html
>
> and tell me why this is different on different platforms?
>
> If you don't want to go to the URL, the code is this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <table width="75%" border="1">
> <tr><td>Control</td><td>PCPA</td><td>Reserpine</td></tr>
> <tr>
> <td><EMBED SRC="Supplement1.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
> CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true
> PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
> <td><EMBED SRC="Supplement2.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
> CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true
> PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
> <td><EMBED SRC="Supplement3.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
> CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true
> PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Thanks in advance!

If I recall correctly, Internet Explorer does not interpret "height"
correctly. But then again, I am not sure that "height" within a <td> is
legal either. I have been through that frustration testing loop before. Rest
assured that Internet Explorer is on its way out.

"For quite a while now my main browser has been the open source Mozilla
Firefox browser. But in the interests of fairness, when the public IE7
beta came out I quickly downloaded it and started trying to use it as
my primary browser. I was anxious to see if the newly threatened
Microsoft could turn out something better than the fox. And the answer
is... No, at least not yet..."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=15

Best wishes,

Roy

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Posted by Philo D on February 25, 2006, 6:21 am
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> I have a very simple page, which shows 3 Quicktime movies in a table. I
> think I'm using just standard simple HTML.

10 errors in the HTML according to
http://validator.w3.org/

Posted by Michael Levin on February 26, 2006, 7:28 am
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On 2/25/06 6:21 AM, in article
250220060621407007%doozy@earthling.net.invalid, "Philo D"

>
>> I have a very simple page, which shows 3 Quicktime movies in a table. I
>> think I'm using just standard simple HTML.
>
> 10 errors in the HTML according to
> http://validator.w3.org/

Wow - thanks - this looks like a very useful tool. But I'm confused - I must
be doing something very basic wrong because it doesn't seem to like anything
about the very short code, and I got it from a frequently-cited example of
how to include MPG in a web page (not to mention, it works correctly on 3
different browsers on a Mac). Do you have any ideas as to what I'm missing?
All I want is a table that plays 3 movies side-by-side, without having to
click on them (they just go, when the page is uploaded). What's a better way
to do it than

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="75%" border="1">
<tr><td>Control</td><td>PCPA</td><td>Reserpine</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement1.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement2.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
<td><EMBED SRC="Supplement3.mov" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300 AUTOPLAY=true
CONTROLLER=true LOOP=true PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net


Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Ekl=F6f? on February 26, 2006, 8:09 am
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> On 2/25/06 6:21 AM, in article
> 250220060621407007%doozy@earthling.net.invalid, "Philo D"
>
> >
> >> I have a very simple page, which shows 3 Quicktime movies in a table. I
> >> think I'm using just standard simple HTML.
> >
> > 10 errors in the HTML according to
> > http://validator.w3.org/
>
> Wow - thanks - this looks like a very useful tool. But I'm confused - I must
> be doing something very basic wrong because it doesn't seem to like anything
> about the very short code, and I got it from a frequently-cited example of
> how to include MPG in a web page (not to mention, it works correctly on 3
> different browsers on a Mac). Do you have any ideas as to what I'm missing?

Apparently, EMBED is not allowed in a table element.
I'm not sure if it is allowed at all.

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