Originally posted by TinmanX
Web designer time....
FireFox is my browser of choice. It is far superior to IE in many ways, mainly because it is open source. It loads pages quicker and displays code properly (and by that I mean it complies to the W3's web standards more fully than IE).
IE carries bugs. There are cookie bugs and CSS bugs and when designing web pages it is a pain in the bellybutton as you HAVE to dumb down your code to have IE display it correctly.
The problem (I think) with the scores page is that it uses the CSS rule;
position:absolute;
and then positions the table absolutely through pixel placing. Unfortunately, while IE doesn't mind too much if you specify what denomination you are using or not (automatically defaulting to pixel when % isn't used), FF demands specifics and so the pixel placement on the page should be changed from;
left:150; top:1022.8
to
left:150px; top:1022.8px
Which will allow all browsers to display the page correctly.
Hopefully Scuzzy will see this post.
There are some legacy CSS statements which use the 'position absolute' tag in the WEB page, but all the variables always declare 'px' when that is what is needed. I just varified that. All those position statements will be going away.
The ranks pages suffered from the use of the DIV tag for the sorts. FF will not allow dynamically enabling and disabling those tags, so you could not get the column sorts. Perfectly legal code, according to the W3C. Just does not work in FF.
All borwsers have some kind of oddity with them. The easiest way I know to avoid those oddities is to apply the KISS principle when doing HTML code.
Oh, I just put up new rank and scores pages today. I have not gotten the stats pages finished yet. If you spot any oddities with the new pages, please post them in the game bug forum.
Oh, and personally, I had far too many problems with FF to use it. The biggest issue I had was the constant crashing in the Sun Java stuff. Not really realted to FF so much, but I believe the Sun Java stuff is the only game in town for Java under FF.
The worst of those problems were, I had to re-install the OS to get IE working again. So, it will be a cold day in heck before I try that browser again. People like to point thier fingers at MS about thow they force a browser down your throat. Try removing Sun Java and revert back to the original java. It ain't pretty.
As long as a browser does most of the standard stuff (none of the them do it all) in HTML 4.0, then I am ok with it. I dunt have issues with IE (but I do not use the standard configurations MS provides either). Topo many sites out there depend on the proprietary garbage IE has in it. I find this particularly true of banking institutions.