jfields 0 #1 August 27, 2001 Hey there.I'm working on my website and have some questions about browsers and html. Everything works fine with Internet Explorer 5.x. The problems start popping up when people try to view the site with Netscape. I'm not sure if there is anything simple I can do to make it more Netscape-friendly or if this is a case of "tough luck." The website uses Microsoft's font embedding and active server pages (ASP). Several people have reported that the pages don't come up, just the raw html. One person thought something was off in the mime headers. I don't know. Any ideas?The entry page of my website is here. It tries to sort by what I think are compatible browsers. You can also try going directly into the website. Here is page of my jump log with a link to a brief story about the jump I did this weekend.If any of you super skydiving web gurus can help, that would be great. Thanks!JustinMy Homepage Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #2 August 27, 2001 What did you use to make the page, if I may ask? Mike Farmer had similar problems with his page not showing up on Netscape, and I believe he used the HTML editor included in Microsoft Word. Basically the problem is that Microsoft doesn't care about making the page compatible for Netscape. So if you use a Microsoft product, it's going to work best on another Microsoft product. Better to use a neutral HTML editor. The one I'm using now is Ace Html4free editor. As in the name, it's free, then they have a 'pro' version if you want to pay for it. The free one is good enough for me since I do a lot of my HTML stuff manually anyway, since that's how I learned it (taught myself). Most of my pages aren't that fancy as I don't have Flash programs and so forth, but on the other hand, a lot of people don't want to have to download a lot of other stuff to make the page viewable either. *shrug*Anyway...just a couple of things. Hope it helps. I'm certainly no web 'guru', just a junkie to learning new things and have done a few for small businesses and friends.PBTW..your site is awesome with IE anyway :)A new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #3 August 27, 2001 Pammi,I made my page using MS Frontpage. I know, not a "real" html editor, but I'm lazy. It does a good job of satisfying "most of the people most of the time" with the least effort. It allows me to use javascript and embed fonts pretty easily to maintain a uniform look without being too large to download.I don't particularly care if people using really old browsers can see it or not. They should just upgrade. I know that is snotty, but I want to give most of the people (IE) a good page to look at. What I'm trying to do is see if there are things I can do to make my site a little more compatible without sacrificing the aesthetics. I'm glad you liked the site. I'm open to suggestions for improvement or additions.JustinMy Homepage Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grogs 0 #4 August 27, 2001 Hey Justin, I got pretty much what you described when I tried opening the page in Netscape 4.77 - just the raw html code. The first thing that sticks out to me is you don't have the closing arguments
