Thread: Wonder if firefox will ever be compatable with all sites?
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Phil2008
Even the ie tab plugin for firefox doesn't correctly display things properly on sites. For example, for some reason when your selling something on ebay and doing the description, the underline wont turn off in firefox, The ietab thing fixes that prob, but when you review what your selling in firefox, the fonts in the discription is all messed up, but looks fine in ie. So Ive uinstalled...
This is more down to poor coding from site developers than anything to do with Firefox. Where I work we effectively have to make 3 versions of our sites, the normal standards compliant version which is shown in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. The IE 7/8 version and the IE6 version which is a massive pain.
The sooner Microsoft release a compliant browser and force user upgrades the ...
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Originally Posted by scaramanga182
This is more down to poor coding from site developers than anything to do with Firefox.
I was going to say this but you beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by scaramanga182
Where I work we ...
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Originally Posted by MarcLister
I was going to say this but you beat me to it.
I assume you mean using several different CSS files for each page and making Firefox, Chome, Safari and Opera etc use one CSS file, IE6 another and IE7/8 another still?
Yeah, I didn't write that very clearly! I ...
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Originally Posted by scaramanga182
Yeah, I didn't write that very clearly! I certainly wouldn't want 3 full versions to maintain!
Hehe. I was kind of asking in a "is that how you do it?" manner and not a "Didn't you mean this?" manner. I've only ever done sites with the one CSS file for all...
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Originally Posted by MarcLister
How exactly would one link say 3 separate CSS files? Declare them as usual but then do that "IF IE8" etc clause?
We use Java Script to handle this but that was written by someone else (I've never used Java) so don't know the exact ins and outs of how it works....
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Originally Posted by scaramanga182
We use Java Script to handle this but that was written by someone else (I've never used Java) so don't know the exact ins and outs of how it works.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
No probs. I'll do some research.
Also why cant firefox use the same add-ons or whatever like ie, for uploading pictures to facebook. Cos you have to install jarva if you want to use firefox to upload pics in facebook?
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Originally Posted by MarcLister
No probs. I'll do some research.
You need to use conditional comments.
In all honesty though, if a dev needs additional css for IE7 and IE8, they're not very good at their job.
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Originally Posted by MarcLister
No probs. I'll do some research.
You need to use conditional comments.
In all honesty though, if a dev needs additional css for IE7 and IE8, they're not very good at their job.
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Originally Posted by Phil2008
Also why cant firefox use the same add-ons or whatever like ie, for uploading pictures to facebook. Cos you have to install jarva if you want to use firefox to upload pics in facebook?
Because people generally code addons and browser extensions for IE in ActiveX which...
Quote: Originally Posted by MarcLister How exactly would one link say 3 separate CSS files? Declare them as usual but then do that "IF IE8" etc clause? We use Java Script to handle this but that was written by someone else (I've never used Java) so don't know the exact ins and outs of how it works. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
Quote: Originally Posted by scaramanga182 We use Java Script to handle this but that was written by someone else (I've never used Java) so don't know the exact ins and outs of how it works. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful! No probs. I'll do some research.
Quote: Originally Posted by Phil2008 Also why cant firefox use the same add-ons or whatever like ie, for uploading pictures to facebook. Cos you have to install jarva if you want to use firefox to upload pics in facebook? Because people generally code addons and browser extensions for IE in ActiveX which is an IE only thing (and the devil but hey)
Quote: Originally Posted by MarcLister No probs. I'll do some research. You need to use conditional comments. In all honesty though, if a dev needs additional css for IE7 and IE8, they're not very good at their job.
Also why cant firefox use the same add-ons or whatever like ie, for uploading pictures to facebook. Cos you have to install jarva if you want to use firefox to upload pics in facebook?
Quote: Originally Posted by Phil2008 Also why cant firefox use the same add-ons or whatever like ie, for uploading pictures to facebook. Cos you have to install jarva if you want to use firefox to upload pics in facebook? They work exactly the same for me. IE uses ActiveX and nothing else does, though. Plugins (like Java, Flash etc) have to come in two versions as a consequence of that.
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