Cross Browser Compatibility

numaria · Post #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-2006, 05:37 PM

Our site doesn't display the same way on different browsers and OS. Is there a tool, site or some resource on the Internet that can pinpoint the code or script or graphic etc which is the cause of cross browser problems?

dacsoft · Post #2 (**permalink**) 08-26-2006, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by numaria

Our site doesn't display the same way on different browsers and OS. Is there a tool, site or some resource on the Internet that can pinpoint the code or script or graphic etc which is the cause of cross browser problems?

Check out your site using something like http://www.sitereportcard.com or http://www.w3.org

There are others, but I don't remember them right now.

zenndex · Post #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2006, 03:44 AM

As dacsoft mentioned, you could use some kind of validator service to check your coding.
Like on w3.org

watchdoghosting · Post #4 (**permalink**) 09-08-2006, 04:24 PM

I've used this before, this can be useful:

http://webxact.watchfire.com/

HTH

EvilivE · Post #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2007, 04:49 PM

In order to get the best results you need to define your DTD!

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Also if you are using CSS it is a good idea to set all margins and padding to 0 and then define the element styles manually.

Code:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }