Website FF vs. IE issues..... >:-(?

Question

okay so i've got my website up and running and everything started off fine working in both FF and IE. BUT now, something went wrong.....

first off, everything works fine in FF. But some of my videos will not display in IE. Some of them actually do (and I have the file permissions set correctly, otherwise it wouldnt show up in FF), just not all of them. The ones that do display do work. But it's almost like half of my website is missing in IE. I can't scroll down to the bottom of the page, b/c it just stops showing everything (this is why I say half of my site is just not there). At first, I thought it was a coding error, like I missed a bracket somewher, but its not b/c i checked and i see everything in FF. Mind you, the formatting is correct in IE, its just that some of the content (videos, words, pictures, links, anything...) is literally not there (no broken page icon, no red 'x', nothing).

any ideas as to what to check? THANKS mucho!!!

Answer 1

Playing of videos in different browsers depends on the media code you have used to play the media file. The object tags and the embed tag (there's only ONE) should both be used to make sure FF and IE play the media file.



Always code to how it looks in Firefox as it is the most CSS 2.1 compliant browser available. Use the w3c.org's CSS/HTML validators...often.



Ron

Answer 2

you in all threat do no longer use a record type or might have an incorrect one. Firefox is the only CSS2 compliant browser available. All variations of IE have not even come close to to being CSS 2 compliant so what you notice in Firefox is right and from what you have coded. IE usually is amazingly sloppy in parsing a information superhighway internet site and can by no skill be used to make a information superhighway website. via fact which you gave no link to website, not greater help can take transport of in spite of the indisputable fact that I guess you have lots of coding blunders. probably in the two the HTML and CSS archives. Ron

Answer 3

Firefox's ability to render a page is not an indication that the page is free of errors. All browsers perform amazing amounts of error recovery.



Things to check:



1. That you have a standards mode triggering Doctypes. Ideally this should be an HTML Doctype since certain things that are allowed in XHTML will break in IE.




"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">



2. Perform basic error checking with http://validator.w3.org/



3. If that doesn't work - provide a URL. It's really hard to debug a webpage based on a vague description of the problem.