A while ago I posted a page with some rendering differences between IE and
Mozilla/Firebird. It's been a while since I revisited it, but I've modified
things so that the HTML and CSS pages validate.

http://zdub.home.mindspring.com/csstest

The test1 & test2 pages show some big differences between the two browser
families. The first difference (with two variations) is in the highlighting of
a graphic link. The second is in the text resizing. The differences are
described on the pages themselves.

(style sheet at http://zdub.home.mindspring.com/csstest/styles.css)

Are these just rendering differences that I have to live with? I'd appreciate
any comments or suggestions.

jon
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"JW" <leowayne@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> a graphic link. The second is in the text resizing.[/color]

The text doesn't resize in IE because you have the font set using 'px' for
the body tag in your CSS. Use % or em's instead.

Jonathan

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"Jonathan Snook" <goto_www.snook.ca@snook.ca> wrote:
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>"JW" <leowayne@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> a graphic link. The second is in the text resizing.[/color]
>
>The text doesn't resize in IE because you have the font set using 'px' for
>the body tag in your CSS. Use % or em's instead.[/color]

Yes, but why then does Mozilla / Firebird resize the text?

jon

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JW wrote:[color=blue]
> "Jonathan Snook" <goto_www.snook.ca@snook.ca> wrote:
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>> "JW" <leowayne@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> The text doesn't resize in IE because you have the font set using
>> 'px' for the body tag in your CSS. Use % or em's instead.[/color]
>
> Yes, but why then does Mozilla / Firebird resize the text?
>[/color]

because it can?

note: 'why' questions are notoriously difficult to answer.

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"JW" <leowayne@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, but why then does Mozilla / Firebird resize the text?[/color]

Because the people who developed the browser felt all text should be
resizeable. Those people who developed IE6 felt that it shouldn't when set
to "px".

Jonathan


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[frethnkr1969]

You wrote: "Yes, but why then does Mozilla / Firebird resize the text?"

As you learn more about web development you'll realize that each browswer does some things differently. Nowadays, most of the newer browsers try to do at least most things the same way by following "standards" that are created through a somewhat democratic process. Microsoft on the other hand is not so concerned with that concept. Between the features that they purposely implement differently and the features that don't work right because of bugs in Internet Explorer.... making feature rich web pages that work properly on both Internet Explorer and the other browsers gets to be quite a challenge.

Ken