Firefox V IE - why so different

[swedguy]

Originally Posted by samandian

How do i get it to look good on both browsers?

Write proper HTML code and it will work in all browsers.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by swedguy

Write proper HTML code and it will work in all browsers.

Exactamundo

Firefox is much less forgiving of bad code than IE.

One thing you can do that will help is to validate every page before you consider it live and ready for traffic. For the most part, if a page validates, it will look good in Firefox. If it looks good in Firefox, it will usually look good in IE. These statements are not always true, but are 'usually' true. Which is why I suggest the following;

Validate every page
View every page in both Firefox and IE

As to why Firefox...I use it first off because I prefer it's functionality over IE. I use it exclusively for site reviews because it's more secure than IE. Since moving to Firefox for 99% of my surfing and 100% of site reviews, I haven't had a single instance of malware hit my system.

As to the 800 pixels wide rule, this subject comes on on the board every few weeks it seems. The consensus of those threads is that continuing to build for 800 wide enables us to build for in excess of 95% of our surfers with no side scroll. If you start building now for 1024x768, you're pretty much ignoring 15% of your surfers...that's using your stats. I haven't looked at mine lately to see if they match up with yours, but those numbers sound about right.

At some point in the future as that 15% drops further, yes...the time will come to adjust to wider sites. However, that time has not arrived just yet