problems with site on mac platform

[goaganesha]

Hi,

I'm making a site using Dreamweaver 4 on a PC. Fonts(arial 14px) are defined in a css and it is optimized for a screen resolution of 1024x768. I use an autostretch table to stretch the pages horizontally when visitors have a resolution which is larger than 1024px.

I have tested it in netscape 4.5 and 6.1
and in int.explorer 5 and 6.
There were no problems at all and when I set my screen to 600x800, horizontal scrollbars appear but everything stays in place. When I set my resolution to 1280x1024 everything stretches the way it should be.

Today I went to someone with a mac using int.explorer 4.5 and a 15" screen set to 600x800. The whole site looked terrible! The fonttype changed to something pixelated in the middle of a sentence, sliced pictures were spread all over the screen and the bottom part of my top frame wasn't visible.

What could be causing this problem? Is it that int.explorer 4.5 doesn't support the autostretch function, is it the mac platform or is it the screen resolution?

What can I do to prevent this from happening?


Thanx for your help.
regards, goaganesha

 

[MrGrey]

I'm afraid what is causing the problem is bad HTML. To get sites looking good on all platforms you need to know what is going on behind the interface.

Keep an eye on the html output. Don't expect Dreamweaver to write perfect code. Put the page through an HTML validator and tidy up any errors.

Look through the site and check for incorrect table dimensions (e.g widths of tables not adding up).

Good luck,

Cheers,

Tom

 

[goaganesha]

Hi tom,

Thanx for your reply.
What do you mean by an HTML validator? Can you give an example? Isn't there also a funcion in Dreamweaver to validate HTML. I made the whole site in layoutview and specified for each table if it should be fixed or autostretch an what dimentions it should have. What more can I do since I'm not an HTML expert at all?

Thanx for your help.

regards, goaganesha