On 2008-09-11, salmobytes wrote:
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I have two windows machines I use for testing: one IE6 and one IE7,
both XP boxes.
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When I develop websites I use vi and firefox/linux, but I test
at various screen resolutions, on little silver Mac/Safari, Opera,
Firefox, IE6 and IE7. I thought that covered my bases.
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But I just looked at one of my sites, that looks OK on XP 1024/768 IE6
on 17" Dell flatscreen.
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But the same site is badly twisted at 1024/768 IE6 on an old Windows
laptop, of which there are still a zillion floating around.
So ok, I can start to test for that too.
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But I wonder if there is any insight here. I thought
1024/768 XP IE6 would be the same regardless.
I'm obviously ignorant about something here.
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The laptop display is physically smaller, but I thought
the resolution setting normalized that somehow.
And obviously it doesn't.
Do your pages vaildate? Check them out at
<http://validator.w3.org>.
Do you use fixed sizes (font-size, width, height, etc.) measured in
pk? (That's a common mistake.)
Do you have a URL for a sample page?
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