My HTML coded on a Mac is making IE unhappy?

Factual Questions
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I need a little bit of help. My site (NSFW, email me - for those who know it, it’s the Picture of the Day page) has a daily page that I just started coding myself, and I suck at it.

Anyway, I did my changes in the source code directly and it shows up just perfectly for me and my Mac friends, but I’ve had some reports that it’s not working for some people. PC/IE users so far.

I have no clue what to look for to find the problem and fix it. Any hints? (It was being coded in Dreamweaver for the mac previously. I’m using Coda.)

Thanks for any assistance.

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PM me with the URL and I will try to help point out the issue.

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FYI It’s common practice to test websites on multiple browsers. It’s not a PC versus Mac thing. It’s a Safari versus IE thing.

Make sure to test it on Firefox and Google Chrome too.

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And test it on different versions of IE if you can, in particular IE6. (That’s the version most noted for ‘idiosyncracies’.) Also test on Opera, Mobile Safari (the version on the iPhone and iPod touch). Maybe even different versions of Windows. PM me and I’ll try it on a couple of different versions of Windows.

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In an ideal world people shouldn’t still be using IE6

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True. This is not an ideal world. :wink:

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ditto

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Thanks to everyone for the PMs offering to help, but I think that zipper probably figured it out, I’ll have to test and see. I had removed previously existing height and width numbers, leaving the tags and the quotes, because I’m trying to script the steps to doing my daily updates, and it was impossible because the thumbnails would distort to the shape of the H&W. So I removed the numbers and it worked.

Except it seems to have broken visibility for some, so Zipper has recommended I remove the H&W attributes completely, since my thumbnails are already prepared. I hope that works!

I will actually probably ask you to look and see… since I won’t know how. But I have to go back out again right now.

(I have to do extremely predictable updates daily, working with serial names of images and HTML pages… coding it everyday gives me hives, especially when I know that I can automate 80% of the work, starting with the scanning… I just don’t know how yet. But for the Mac among you… know much about Folder Actions? Seems like I should be able to scan to a folder and with a combination of Quickeys, Automator and folder actions, make copies, name, thumbnail, etc. as I go. I mean, I have this insane amount of computing power available to me, it seems ludicrous to sit and drap and drop or type all this junk, you know?

And yes, I intend to move to a CMS with a gallery program, but for now that’s a huge leap and I just need to have an easier way to do my daily work. I am completely amazed, amused, and frustrated that my Retro site has such “retro” code… There is absolutely nothing going on on the site that wasn’t going on in 1996, code wise. TWELVE years!

Yegads.

Speaking of which… Are any of you brilliant folk brilliant with Gallery? Or Coppermine? When I finally make the switch, I’m going to need a gallery program that can handle 100,000 images without a problem, and I am determined to have meta tag Boolean searching! But months of searching and researching has brought me nothing but frustration and disappointment, time and again.

As for CMS, I was convinced that Drupal was the ticket, but then I realized that the learning curve was just too steep, so I’m back to Joomla. But again… that’s later.

I think I may have to post in IMHO about all this…

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We don’t have a rule against posting NSFW links, as long as they’re broken (just insert a space in the URL so that it doesn’t parse).

If you want to post links to your own site when asking for coding help, just shoot one of the mods a PM first to make sure it’s okay. We’re typically fine with it, as long as it’s clearly a call for help rather than a “look at me!” promotion of the site.
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Just to follow up…

The images on the site were coded as such:



<img src="image.jpg" height="" width="" border="0" >

Firefox - and apparently Safari - apparently ignored those empty attributes and made the images native-size while IE made the images 0x0.

I gave Stoid a quick primer on sizing images (using both attributes vs. using just one attribute vs. leaving the attributes out) and she should be good to go now.

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You may also want to look at Dynamic Drive. They solved every issue I had with XHTML especially different browsers. The forums are very helpful and if you must they have premade scripts

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I’ve been around so long and it used to be in my profile, it’s been discussed… I halfway assume everyone knows already!

I will post a link and a request for checks later after I fix it.

Thanks!

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Right. Test with Netscape 4.0 as well.

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Or test to see that your HTML code is proper HTML. Use a HTML validator, either the official one at validator.w3.org, or one of the many others that are available (mostly free). Some of them include options to test against various current & previous browsers, and tell you which ones will be able to handle your HTML code.