# New SD tailored for IE?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 29, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797 "2000-04-29T22:58:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/1 "2000-04-29T22:58:54Z")
I’m a netscape user. I go the new and improved SDMB and find that the message board is confined to a width of 640 pixels across the screen. So this makes all the subject lines scrunched up to a few letters per line, which kind of makes it difficult to read.
So I’m thinking, ok, maybe this is just a flaw of this new software and it will be fixed shortly. But then it dawns on me that it could be browser specific. I open up IE, and the board looks flawless.
Now, what the fuck? Is the software totally alienating Netscape users? I mean, I don’t want to turn this into a Netscape vs IE debate, but there are some serious differences here.
I hope this problem is corrected. I really don’t want to use IE for this.
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### Author:  [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/2 "2000-04-29T23:04:02Z")
Update your Netscape version… I use 4.72 and it looks as good as IE 5.0.
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### Author:  [@Suzeanne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suzeanne)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/3 "2000-04-30T03:18:12Z")
Maybe you have a smaller screen set at a different resolution, Squee.
I have Netscape 4.72 as well, and the columns are TOTALLY off, everything smoooshed to the left side. This is on a 17" at 1024x768. Very funky looking.
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### Author:  [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/4 "2000-04-30T03:23:30Z")
I upgraded from 4.6 to 4.72 and still have the same problem. It’s annoying, because I like Netscape much better than IE, but the columns being all off to one side sucks.
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### Author:  [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/5 "2000-04-30T04:48:58Z")
**Suzeanne** ,
I have a 17" monitor also, but my resolution is set to 800x600 pixels. When I adjust my screen to your settings, it just makes everything smaller. Try adjusting your settings. If that doesn’t do it, I’m sure someone with more knowledge than I will come along and give you an idea that works.
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/6 "2000-04-30T20:16:57Z")
Well, I have Navigator 4.72 and only a 15" monitor, and I don’t have any problems with how the site looks.
I haven’t looked at it at work yet, though since I have a 17" monitor there, I doubt it’ll look worse…
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Satan
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/7 "2000-04-30T20:38:27Z")
I am an IE user and testing this with Netscrape version 4.5.
The forum pages are goofed up but the rest of it is okay.
I looked at the source code and apparently it uses cascading style sheets which Netscrape has a hard time with, it always has.
BTW, I am using a 17" monitor with a resolution of 800x600.
\< this posting was done in Netscrape sorry if you prefer it, I just prefer IE 🙂 \>
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/8 "2000-04-30T21:02:28Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23109](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23109)
I played around with the table layout html on a copy of a page until I got it to come out the same in both browsers. Netscape doesn’t handle certain aspects of table layout well, which I believe has something to do with them not following the W3C’s HTML standards. I have no idea if this is still the case with Netscape 6, but I was using 4.7.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/9 "2000-04-30T22:47:43Z")
I am using Netscape 4.72 here at home. Thing is, I’m getting the smooshed columns in only some forums! MPSIMS and ATMB are smooshed. I think GQ is normal, and I KNOW The Pit is. Don’t remember if GD is normal or not.
Using IE at work, and everything looks fine.
Is there any explanation for that?
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### Author:  [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/10 "2000-04-30T23:11:56Z")
I just changed a backend template to render the forum display screen better for Netscape users. Check out thread:
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23109](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23109)
Perhaps this is a caching issue?
Jerry
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### Author:  [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-sd-tailored-for-ie/16797/11 "2000-05-01T01:52:03Z")
Mo’ bettah! Thanks, Jerry!