A while back I viewed this site in Firefox; it looked horrible, so I
added some inline JavaScript code that checked for "Netscape"
(Firefox is the same as Netscape, as far as JavaScript is concerned)
and modified the html code to look decent in Firefox. I was recently
at an interview where the interviewer wanted to see my "portfolio".
I suggested my home page, but it looked horrible on her copy of
Internet Explorer. Once again I realized I needed to change my code
to display correctly on - this is what the interviewer was using -
Windows XP running Internet Explorer 7 on a really old (and tiny)
looking CRT display.
I decided I didn't want to do anything as radical as required in
getting my home page to display properly on Firefox. Keeping that in
mind and limiting the changes to the worst part of the page (my
mortgage calculator and "jukebox" were overlapping) this is what I
did:
(1) Viewed my homepage in Frontpage - got a graphical presentation
of the page layout.
(2) Moved the left hand side of the mortgage calculator div to the
right by 50 pixels (got rid of the overlap with the jukebox).
(3) Reduced the font size of the jukebox text from 18pt to 16 pt (it
was being obscured by the mortgage calculator)
These kind of changes affect the way the page displays on any IE
browser, but it won't make it look any worse on them, and it makes
it look acceptable on an old setup as described in the beginning of
this blog. I didn't change the Firefox code because I was able to
reproduce the setup that caused the display problems on IE but not
on Firefox.