By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, October 30, 2006 at 11:55 AM
We need a little help. A minor, but annoying, bug in our site has been eating away at us for way too long. Labels: Tech_Support
We use Macs mostly and if we have to use a PC, we use Firefox to surf the Web. So we rarely get to see the bug ourselves. But last week we were reminded of the less-that-perfect experience of PC owners who use Microsoft's incredibly unsafe Internet Explorer when our site was featured on Fox News.
There we were on TV in all our orange and black glory, but then as the reporter scrolled to the top of our page (gasp) we were shockingly incomplete.
The problem is that in most modern browsers (Safari and Firefox) we look like this. But in IE we look like this. Notice the difference? A piece of our background image doesn't show up, instead revealing a thick chuck of our orange background.
Any of you techies have a clue how we can fix that?
UPDATE: Fixed! Thanks, Ben Smith.
5 Comments:
Antonio-
Move that background="http://pubdef.net/images_new/corner-top.jpg" from the first <TR> on your inner table to the <TD> inside it, so that it looks something like:
<tr>
<td background="http://pubdef.net/images_new/corner-top.jpg" height="46" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
You should really <div> n css this thing up, it'd solve alot of the weird display bugs you come across.
10/30/2006 1:18 PM
Yeah, what he said. ; )
I also have heard that if you send a check to Richard Callow, it will all work fine.
10/30/2006 2:13 PM
Ben, by gosh I think it worked!
Thanks.
10/30/2006 2:41 PM
It amazes me how many still use IE! Microsoft just released version 7 recently and it is already making the news:
"A security problem originally found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser has returned to haunt IE7, the new version of the browser launched two weeks ago, a security consultant said Monday."
See http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/103006-microsofts-new-browser-haunted-by.html for the full story. And then proceed quickly to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ to download a better browser.
10/31/2006 10:44 AM
In further nerd news, the new IE 7 continues the same old MS pattern of awkward-compliance with CSS standards, willfully failing the Acid2 browser test.
http://tinyurl.com/buyj5
10/31/2006 1:40 PM
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