Johan Feyaerts wrote:
>>I get a strange effect that I never noticed elswhere:
>>When I increase the font's size, the buttons on the left get spaced 
>>tighter together, and drift apart verticali when I reduce the fonts.
>>Using Firefox.
> 
> mmm indeed , ie 6 also does that, quite strange.
> Made the website with dreamweaver. Don't know why it does that. Its a 
> standard dreamweaver navigation bar.
> Internet explorer 7 does even more strange things. It puts the block  on top 
> of which the buttons are positioned in the top left corner instead of below 
> the header.
> I used tables to make the layout of the website pages, which probably was 
> not  really the best choice. Don't have any idea why ie 7 displays this in a 
> different way than ie 6.
> 
It's Microsoft's usual arrogant attitude that they're too big to bother 
with following published standards, they think everybody should follow 
them instead.  They think they have to be unique -- if they're forced to 
follow standards, they'll have to actually _compete_ with others.  MSIE, 
up through version 6 definitely didn't follow W3C standard HTML/CSS 
definitions.  With version 7 they finally condescended to make it more 
standard -- it's closer, but still not there yet.

There's plenty of info on the web and in HTML books to show the 
work-arounds and kludges needed for MSIE.

(FWIW, I always use Firefox.)     :-)    Also, I don't write web pages. 
  I occasionally write some simple-minded HTML documents for my own use, 
but they stay on my own computer and not on the web, so I don't have to 
worry about the deficiencies of IE.

      -=- Larry -=-

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