All Browsers compatible - Website publishing

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Is there a software or trick available to which if any website is fed, it will let us know if certain browsers may not display the website correctly.

In other words if the website looks good on firefox & explorer, how can one check whether it will look the same on say safari or a mac based browser?
 
Firefox renders the same on OSX, Windows and Linux as does Opera. There was as website where you put in the URL and it takes screenshots of the site on whatever browser you want but its late and I can't think.
 
dont make any sites in Frontpage, as they wont work in firefox properly!

i have ie and FF for testing, ive been told often to build for FF and it should work on IE, but thats not always the case, best thing to do is just download both and give them a try
 
I havent found anywhere that does it for you - though I did once find somewhere that did as Pete says and it took a screenshot of my site in Safari (which was kind of usefull) but normall I make in Firefox, check in IE regularly and ajust so that it works - then at the end check in Opera (as it normally is fine). I have checked in more random browsers before just to see and if it looks good in IE and Firefox then it seems to be good everywhere else.
 
Even W3C compliant sites don't always display the same across all platforms. (Usually IE ;))

The trick I was taught is to design for Firefox, and then tweak for IE.
 
Marcel said:
Even W3C compliant sites don't always display the same across all platforms. (Usually IE ;))

The trick I was taught is to design for Firefox, and then tweak for IE.
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This is what I do too.
I would think IE 7 is ok, but the older versions tend to display what they think you want and not what you wrote.

I use the W3C Markup Validation Service to check my code and my CSS
 
Thanks guys for your advise. Nothing fancy, using NVU to design the website. Will put up for comments very soon. Watch this space.
 
i design for FF

ie can go do sexually orientated things to itself imo ;)

the small print: must point out i dont have IE to test with though
 
FF also has built in tools for validating for compliancy. :thumbs: ... A web developer add-on or something like that.


My tip;
Keep well away from cell padding coding, especially left and right padding...that’s the main reason for discrepancies between browsers as far as I remember. It’s been a while.
 
I've got to address this myself.. noticed from statcounter and google tracking thingy that mostly my site is viewed on the right screen etc, ie as i want it to look, as it should look. But the problem I think i want to address is the fact that when viewed on 15inch monitors in the regular workplace, where a lot of my viewers and clients browse from, the site fonts etc look huge on those screens as don't scale down so for example the bottom set of links on my homepage fit lovely on 800x600 upwards, on decent size monitors but on regular 15inch set ups it goes onto other lines. I'm sure some simple coding will sort me, unless i need to apply some of the tips you guys have put in this thread already.. arrrgh. it's getting there.. not bad for zero training.
 
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