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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:28 pm

What is the best way to make a site compatable with all of the browsers.
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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:28 pm

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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:37 pm

THe general aspect of the answer has been discussed (sometimes in detail) in several threads already on this board. With a little reading, you'll pick up all kinds of information about this.

Generically speaking, if you code to standards, you'll be close. After that, it because a matter of tweaking and seeing how it looks in various browsers.
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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:45 pm

I have IE, is there any way to test my sites in other browsers...
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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:46 pm

u can download mozilla, netscape, Opra (sp) and some other ones
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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:47 pm

Mozilla Firebird, and Netscape 7.1 are free - just go to the sites, download them and install them. Opera can be downloaded for free, but you have to pay the registration fee to lose the ads.
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Post February 21st, 2004, 7:49 pm

i have a friend on mac. i may be able to get her to test it. i have a friend that has a friend on mac. he maybe able to get him to test it
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Post February 21st, 2004, 8:43 pm

musik posted a neat link a while ago for a site that allows you to view your site on the Mac browser Safari 1.2:

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/
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Post February 21st, 2004, 9:45 pm

ne sites you guys no of just to test it w/ mozilla, like the one rich posted
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Post February 22nd, 2004, 6:24 am

Are you not abale to download Mozilla or Netscape? They are both free and I doubt anyone would waste the type to set something up like icapture, since they are easily accessible.
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Post February 22nd, 2004, 1:19 pm

i can d/l the, i just didnt no if they had like a quick link to test it in
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Post February 22nd, 2004, 1:26 pm

Download them. It's pretty painless and you'll thank yourself later.
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Post February 22nd, 2004, 4:22 pm

The only way to be truly cross-browser compatible is to completely seperate your data from your presentation. For example, keep all your news articles in a SQL server like MySQL and use a glue language like PHP or Perl to generate HTML content specific to the requesting user-agent. Better yet... do what ATNO says and stick with the standards. If web masters did that 100% of the time, this thread wouldn't exist. :-)

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