Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for ColbyConsulting

John W. Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Feb 20 10:37:45 CST 2003


Brett,

They have a whole toolbar (prominently displayed) with flash stuff.  So,
being a non-webhead, I just clicked on it and started designing.

I have discovered that the issue of the buttons overlapping is that I was
depending on the browser to wrap the buttons if they didn't fit side by
side.  I.e. I had no carriage return after each control in the left pane.
IE wraps them correctly, Mozilla does not.  Sounds like a bug (in Mozilla)
to me.  So, to work around the bug in Mozilla, I added a shift-CR after each
button.  The button overlap goes away however now I have white space between
each button.  about 1/2 the height of the button  a LOT of white space.  But
only in Mozilla, not in IE.  Since Mozilla is the one with the bug, I think
it is appropriate that their users see things screwed up due to the
workaround!!!

;-)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Brett Barabash
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:09 AM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for
ColbyConsulting


I've been reading this thread with great interest.  I was thinking about
investing in Dreamweaver, but it seems to create Flash-centric sites.  I
guess this would make sense since Macromedia owns the technology.  For other
Dreamweaver users out there: Does it offer viable alternatives to using
Flash (e.g. animated GIFs)?


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	John W. Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
> Sent:	Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:00 AM
> To:	accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject:	RE: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for
> ColbyConsulting
> 
> Well, here's a new one.  I have been viewing my site this whole time.
> Installed Mozilla and it informed my I had to download the flash widget
> (button).  Why?  It had to be installed for IE to run.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Seth Galitzer
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:47 AM
> To: accessd
> Subject: Re: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for
> ColbyConsulting
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> you can have any number of browsers on your system, but each one will
> try to "take over" the association of .htm files when you launch it.  I
> believe you can disable this behavior in many of them, but each one is
> different.  As for browsers, here are a couple of the major players:
> 
> Mozilla (NS7 is based on this, so if it looks good here, it will look
> good on NS7 as well; so is the Phoenix browser)
> http://www.mozilla.org/
> 
> Opera (shareware, but fully functional)
> http://www.opera.com/
> 
> Netscape (4.x, no longer distributed, but still widely used; VERY
> different fron NS7)
> http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive47x.html
> 
> There are a raft of other alternative browsers here:
> http://download.com.com/3150-2356-0.html?tag=dir
> 
> but the three I mentioned above are probably the most common
> 
> Download away... 
> 
> Seth
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:19, John W. Colby wrote:
> > Does anyone know if Netscape and IE will now co-exist.  In the olden
> days
> > you could trash a computer by trying to install both at the same time.
> > Also, could someone point me to some other browsers I can download (for
> free
> > - no money to do this).
> > 
> > John W. Colby
> > Colby Consulting
> > www.ColbyConsulting.com
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Seth Galitzer			sgsax at ksu.edu
> Computing Specialist		http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
> Dept. of Plant Pathology
> Kansas State University
> 
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