Firefox displays our site wrong, shifts upwards

[lister110]

http://www.smartercomms.com

For some reason our website seems to have shifted up while viewing this in firefox? If we view this in explorer we do not get this problem!

I personally didnt build the site so am unsure what apps created it
I think its a mixture of macromedia dreamweaver and flash movies

Please can you help!!!!
I have just started to use firefox so am very new to this browser.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Under the modern browsers, your HTML only works if it's treated as an old-style HTML, a.k.a. HTML 2. Your HTML is declared as "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" but in fact it is not a valid XHTML. Because of that, modern browsers have problems displaying the contents.

IE is neither "modern" nor "standard" browser (it's a piece of junk if you ask me!), it displays anything in its own way. (IE even cannot handle XHTML for a start.)

Solution:
1. Remove DOCUTYPE declaration altogether
2. Replace XHTML style closing tags ("/>") with HTML closing tags (">")

Or re-write your HTML as valid HTML 4 or XHTML. This is the "proper" solution, but not as easy as the first solution!

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[oldnewbie]

Netscape is a worst piece of junk than IE ever was!

My 2 cents.

Regards. Web Hosting - Web Design
03/13/05 -> OLDNEWBIE VS FLASHKIT

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Oh c'mon, give poor Netscape a break! Respect the old favourite.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[pixl8r]

I'm with Old... it stinks.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Well, I used to despise Netscape. I used to think, "I wish I didn't have to support Netscape 4" all the time.

Now time has changed: IE became so outdated and odd one out in among modern browsers. I really wish if I didn't have to support IE now, so I can use just standard XHTML.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[pixl8r]

NS 4 is a completely different story.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!