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Subject:Re: Firefox vs IE - help From:Elizabeth J Allen <eja -at- samurai -dot- com> To:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:46:19 -0400
Thanks Chris!
Quirks mode does indeed prevent the most painful ugliness in IE7.
Thanks also to Mark the Writer and Elizabeth Labine for their
contributions.
Merci!
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth J. Allen
Samurai Consulting Inc.
eja -at- samurai -dot- com
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." —Albert
Einstein
On 25-Jul-07, at 12:49 PM, Chris Borokowski wrote:
> My 21 second fix:
>http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/quirksmode.html
>
> Explanation:
>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=253027&cid=19925899
>
> --- Elizabeth J Allen <eja -at- samurai -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I've strayed out of my comfort zone to create a web site for a friend
>>
>> of mine who is getting married. Found an open-source template,
>> tweaked it, added text and images. It looks great in Firefox on my
>> Mac, yadda yadda. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer has, er, issues.
>> Specifically I hear that IE 7 doesn't like the site. To wit, "on
>> Internet Explorer 7, the photo of the labyrinth covers up most of the
>>
>> Berry quote and the names." I don't have IE7 and would prefer not to.
>>
>> Here's the URL: http://robandbonniewedding.com/
>>
>> I have validated both the HTML and the CSS using the W3C tools--it
>> passes fine. I would appreciate any and all help that comes my way.
>> My knowledge of web sites is now officially maxed out.
>>
>> Gratitude in advance,
>>
>> Elizabeth
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