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Re: Can you help me turn the Amiga <Tables>?

#165
From: Chris Hewitt
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:00
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Greetings Angus Manwaring
>On 17-Sep-00 08:55:06, Dave Sparks said

>>Don't forget CheckHTML - this will spot errors which many browsers
>>ignore.  Correcting these 'invisible' errors makes it more likely
>>that your HTML will work on browsers you have never tried.

>I'm sort of getting the impression that most browsers are not going to see
>things _my_ way, unfortunately.  :)


>Anyway, I've ploughed on to some extent, is there any chance some
>volunteers could take a look at the page? I know how it looks in IBrowse
>and Voyager (my old versions) and I'm happy with that. I tried the
>AmigaActive demo of AWeb and it was bloody awful though.  :)

>I'd be interested in how the newer versions of Voyager and IBrowse get
>on though, and some of the PC browsers. Anybody? Pretty please.

Ok then,

IBrowse V2.2 Demo reders it just like your .jpg screenshot.

Microsoft IE5.5, Netscape 4.7 & Opera 4.02 all render it as the
screenshot except that they only grid lines where there is something
in the cell. ie you end up with something like:

+--------+--------+--------+
| Cell 1 | Cell 3 | Cell 3 |
+--------+--------+--------+
|                          |
|        +--------+        |
|        | Wibble |        |
|        +--------+        |
|                          |
+--------+--------+--------+

This may or may not be a problem. If you want to show the grid to be
shown just stick the afore mentioned &nbsp; in any cell with no other
text.

The only other browser I've tried it in is Netscape 6 Preview 2 and that
made a total mess of it. Mind you, it seems to make a total mess of
everything so I wouldn't read too much into that.

On a separate point, none of your <TD> tags have closing </TD> tags.
Technially they are optional, but it is always a good idea to include
them.

Chris

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Subject: Re: Can you help me turn the Amiga <Tables>?
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