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After getting my page all put together I noticed that my main page and my links page of my site do not work with netscape. How do I fix this without ruining the way its set up now?
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Karl Blessing
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Watch out for using anything IE-oriented, like IFrames, some DHTML features, style="..." properties, etc. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href= </a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>
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When I went to your site I got the following error in Netscape:
unable to find file or directory:
CI/NetObjects Fusion 5.0/User Sites/newsite/hs~index.html
IE will typically ignore the hs~ infront of the address but netscape will not. You need to make sure that when you ftp your site to the server that the frame set contains the correct location of the files to load and not the temporary homesite file.
i.e., index.html
Also, strip the HTML code from your frameset - that might be one of your problems IE and netscape both handle this differently but proper coding demands that the frameset only contains frameset tags and possibly meta tags but not the <head><html><body> or <title> tags. Give this a try and see what happens in netscape. [sig][/sig]
unable to find file or directory:
CI/NetObjects Fusion 5.0/User Sites/newsite/hs~index.html
IE will typically ignore the hs~ infront of the address but netscape will not. You need to make sure that when you ftp your site to the server that the frame set contains the correct location of the files to load and not the temporary homesite file.
i.e., index.html
Also, strip the HTML code from your frameset - that might be one of your problems IE and netscape both handle this differently but proper coding demands that the frameset only contains frameset tags and possibly meta tags but not the <head><html><body> or <title> tags. Give this a try and see what happens in netscape. [sig][/sig]
Mongo, took a look at your code for your links page. Saw a couple of things, take a look at your code, there is a center tag <center> right before the <body> tag - that shouldn't be there - remove it. For one thing, it serves no purpose - it will not center the page. The other problem is that it was never closed </center> anywhere on your page.
When designing to work with both the major browsers I have found one thing to be true, MS IE is much friendlier and will allow you to make simple mistakes. Netscape on the other hand will not allow those simple mistakes it requires a properly coded page to work well.
You might try using netscape as your main design browser that way you can work out all of the kinks before the pages are published. I don't like netscape but I tell all of my webdesign students to use it because it wont allow them to make small errors - it is like having a devils advocate in your machine.
Hope this helps. [sig][/sig]
When designing to work with both the major browsers I have found one thing to be true, MS IE is much friendlier and will allow you to make simple mistakes. Netscape on the other hand will not allow those simple mistakes it requires a properly coded page to work well.
You might try using netscape as your main design browser that way you can work out all of the kinks before the pages are published. I don't like netscape but I tell all of my webdesign students to use it because it wont allow them to make small errors - it is like having a devils advocate in your machine.
Hope this helps. [sig][/sig]
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