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#1 01/01/2009 11:09 am
- M_S_Beltran
- Landlubber.
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 36
Wny do the lenses look different...
I was wondering why the lenses look different on Firefox than the do on AOL or IE?
It looks a little-- unkempt; not as neat.
I use AOL. If I made them in Firefox, would they look strange on AOL and IE?
And does anyone know how to avoid this problem or have any resources to try and figure out a way to make the lens look good on both?
Just wondering... I'm something of a perfectionist and I am still pretty new to HTML, so I hate spending many painstaking hours getting a module just exactly the way I want it-- only to know that everyone looking at it in firefox is probably seeing something that looks a little sloppy.
Thanks in advance.
MSB
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#2 01/02/2009 7:45 am
- Magicality
- Positively aquatic
- From: Belgium
- Registered: 12/28/2006
- Posts: 295
Re: Wny do the lenses look different...
Do you have a specific example ?
Some browsers render some things slightly different ... It's kind of a nightmare for web developers ... But all issues are fixable, so feel free to post your specific problem.
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#3 01/02/2009 10:16 am
- MattTaylor
- First mate
- From: NW United States
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 440
Re: Wny do the lenses look different...
I never thought about that! I would think the lenses would look the same no matter which browser you used to create them...
Anyone?
Matt
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#4 01/02/2009 12:16 pm
- B7T
- Swimming pretty (100+ posts!)
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 113
Re: Wny do the lenses look different...
The browser you use to publish your lenses shouldn't affect their appearance; the code entered will be the same, but each browser will interpret it a bit differently.
I've had trouble on my blogs with things like padding, centering, and font sizes not rendering the way I intended, when I viewed them on other browsers. Sometimes the trouble isn't the browser, but the computer; screen resolution and other personal default settings on different machines may interfere with the intended effect.
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#5 01/02/2009 1:25 pm
- susannaduffy
- Indubitably tentacular
- From: Australia
- Registered: 09/25/2006
- Posts: 3465
Re: Wny do the lenses look different...
They look slightly different using IE than they do using firefox - like most things on the web. Or do I mean everything on the web?
As for AOL, I don't know .. (I didn't know it was still around)
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#6 01/03/2009 8:15 am
- spirituality
- Citizen Squid
- From: Netherlands
- Registered: 12/31/1969
- Posts: 2173
Re: Wny do the lenses look different...
You'll have to live with the differences. IE6 will show it different from IE7, which will show it again different from IE8 - and again different in firefox, IE5, Netscape, Opera etc.
As long as you don't do anything too fancy, it should fine in all of them. One thing to look at is margins and paddings - defining both will avoid some pixel specific issues. (you said you were a perfectionist).
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