Inconsistencies viewing from IE to IE?

[THE4MAN]

I am working on site right now and I am running into some peculiar problems.

When I design the site at home, it looks just like I want it. But when I get to work and view it there, things look just a little off.

All things given, the both systems are comaprable. Both monitors are 17". Both set to 24 bit color at 800x600 resolution. Both are using IE6 on Windows (although one is on 98SE and the other on NT). So you would think things would look the same.

But for example, I have a button that opens a new custom sized window using javascript. It's a fixed-sized window and the dimensions for the window are sized perfectly to fit the graphics I created within it. But I view this same window at work and there's about a 4 or 5 pixel gap on the right side of the window. Ugly.

Also, I created another page that had some text placed at the bottom of the page so that the page didn't produce a scroll bar. But I view this page at work and the scroll bar appears. It only moves a few pixels below the text, but nevertheless it's there and I don't want it to be.

It just seems like things are "off" by just a few pixels both horizontally and vertically. Not some kind of resolution problem. Or monitor size problem or anything obvious.

Can anyone explain these kinds of minor, but annoying inconsistencies?

Thanks for the help.

Dave Fore

 

[deecee]

try right clicking on one of your pages and going to properties there make all margins 0 and then see how that works
"blah blah blah blah blah..."-Dennis Quaid

 

[THE4MAN]

Thanks deecee. As a habit I set up all of my pages with zero margins all around. I wish this was the problem but it's gotta be something else. What, I don't know. Like I said, the differences are just a few pixels, but it's enough to make it look like sloppy work, especially when a scroll bar appears only to scroll a few pixels down. And you'd think a 485x485 pixel window that's fixed in size via javascript would display the same, especially in identical versions of a browser, but I guess not.

I'll take any other suggestions if you have any!

Dave Fore