Click here to get back home

Why is my page displayed differently on Mac vs. PC browsers?
 Home | NewsGroups | Search | About
Login Password
Register Now!
 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html    Post an article   get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content
Subject Author Date
Why is my page displayed differently on Mac vs. PC browsers? Michael Levin 02-24-2006
Posted by Philo D on February 26, 2006, 12:19 pm
Please log in for more thread options


> 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
> [...] Do you have any ideas as to what I'm missing?

First, decide which version of HTML you intend to write.
Put that in your header.
Then feed your page to validator.w3.org
Now, correct the first error it reports.
Then feed it to validator.w3.org again.
Eventually you should converge to a page with valid HTML.

Posted by Michael Levin on February 26, 2006, 2:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options

On 2/26/06 12:19 PM, in article
260220061219006897%doozy@earthling.net.invalid, "Philo D"

>
>> 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
>> [...] Do you have any ideas as to what I'm missing?
>
> First, decide which version of HTML you intend to write.
> Put that in your header.
> Then feed your page to validator.w3.org
> Now, correct the first error it reports.
> Then feed it to validator.w3.org again.
> Eventually you should converge to a page with valid HTML.

I understand the process of debugging but since this validator hated so
many things about my short code, I wonder whether rather trying to fix what
I have piece-meal, it might be better to start from scratch and use the
correct elements. I don't want to debug piece by piece if my whole approach
here is misguided and I need to use a different approach for this. How would
people go about displaying 3 quicktime MPG movies to run side-by-side?

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net


Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Ekl=F6f? on February 26, 2006, 4:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options



> I understand the process of debugging but since this validator hated so
> many things about my short code,

It's not that bad I think. As I said the primary error was the <EMBED>
tag in the table cells. Most other errors followed from that.

--
I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines
to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour

Posted by Michael Levin on February 26, 2006, 5:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options


On 2/26/06 4:58 PM, in article
1hbe2dt.ohgbf51rc59hcN%andekl_no@saaf_spam.se, "Anders Eklöf"

>
>> I understand the process of debugging but since this validator hated so
>> many things about my short code,
>
> It's not that bad I think. As I said the primary error was the <EMBED>
> tag in the table cells. Most other errors followed from that.

ok; can you suggest an alternative that would be valid (or more
importantly, would display correctly in Internet Explorer on a PC)?

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net


Posted by Michael Ulrich on March 3, 2006, 3:17 am
Please log in for more thread options



> 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">
[snip]
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
>
> Mike Levin
> mlevin77@comcast.net
>

I may be missing something, but your code works beautifully in
IE 6.0 on two PCs here, both with Win2000 SP4 and WinXP Prof
2002 SP2. Nor height problem with MOVs, nothing cut off!

Siggi



Similar ThreadsPosted
Different browsers render differently October 26, 2004, 4:50 pm
Basic image alignment using tables displays differently in browsers September 2, 2006, 5:37 pm
What can be used to update a MathML page in Mozilla browsers? May 15, 2005, 8:34 pm
BGCOLOR only in Opera, not other browsers (valid page) May 4, 2008, 1:38 am
Why is
  • badly displayed ?
    		•  July 25, 2004, 4:33 pm
    Frames Not Displayed September 24, 2005, 1:07 pm
    RE: Frames Not Displayed September 26, 2005, 4:19 am
    HTML is not displayed but downloaded ! Please help ! August 19, 2004, 2:16 am
    css border clipping differently in ff and ie April 26, 2007, 9:07 am
    html anchor tag displayed in middle not top October 11, 2005, 8:30 am

    Our other projects:

    Art Dolls, Fairies and Mermaids - Sunnyfaces.net

    Roy's Linux, Programming and Search Engines messages

    1-Script XML SitemapXML Sitemap