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Bug in www.vintage-computer.com mainpage?

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I noticed that there is an alignment problem with the vintage-computer.com logo on the main page. The category selection box obscures the graphic of the wagon. This only happens to me when I am using Firefox 2 (both OSX and Linux) or Safari. Everything looks just fine under IE6.
 
Yeah, I'm aware of it. The Firefox rendering engine treats the graphic differently than IE and most other browsers.

Frankly, I consider the bug to be in Firefox. ;)
 
I don't think it is isolated to Firefox. Safari shows the same problem. I believe Safari is based on the Konquerer engine. I am willing to bet this shows up in any browser that is not IE. From what I have read it is actually IE that is the browser that doesn't conform to internet standards. I think it's pretty common practice for Microsoft when adopting some kind of "open" standard. They like to deviate from it just a little bit and use their dominance to crush their competitors.

Anyway, it's just nitpicking I guess. I just use the forums so I haven't noticed if the rendering problem affects other parts of the website. But, you shouldn't appease the Beast of Redmond and blow Firefox off as a two bit browser. Last time I checked, Firefox accounted for around 20% of internet users and is growing quickly.
 
Anonymous Coward said:
Anyway, it's just nitpicking I guess. I just use the forums so I haven't noticed if the rendering problem affects other parts of the website. But, you shouldn't appease the Beast of Redmond and blow Firefox off as a two bit browser. Last time I checked, Firefox accounted for around 20% of internet users and is growing quickly.
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Understood. I'm not blowing off Firefox or any other browser. I try very hard to keep the entire site as standard as possible. The banner/menu at the top of the pages still functions properly - it just covers the wagon image for the browsers that don't like the position tag on the image.

Everything else should work and render properly.

I do want to do another site redesign someday (the current iteration is basically 2.0) I'm pretty sure I'll abandon most or all of the graphical elements outside of the computer pictures and that I'll rely almost exclusively on style sheets for look and feel.

I really want to ditch manual pages altogether and push the entire site (sans forums) into a database backend with a DHTML engine pulling images and descriptions from the database for each machine represented. This would give me a lot of flexibility going forward. . . I could do this if I could only find the time. . . :p
 
You know I dug out a 2 year old email about a problem with someone elses website & yet even though I always promise myself to revamp my website it still remains unrevamped. Lol. Lol indeed.
 
Hm, can the problem have something to do with there is a HTML page inside the HTML page? I.e. the <html> tag appears at least twice within the document. I think by rewiting that part of the top, more browsers might render the page in the same way.

But I agree on lazyness. It is four years ago I took down my old homepage. Part of it has been rebuilt with new code, but part of it still remains offline. Some of the pages are outdated anyhow and didn't contain anything meaningful to put them online again.
 
carlsson said:
Hm, can the problem have something to do with there is a HTML page inside the HTML page? I.e. the <html> tag appears at least twice within the document. I think by rewiting that part of the top, more browsers might render the page in the same way.

But I agree on lazyness. It is four years ago I took down my old homepage. Part of it has been rebuilt with new code, but part of it still remains offline. Some of the pages are outdated anyhow and didn't contain anything meaningful to put them online again.
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Yeah I just noticed that. Looks like if it where supposed to be iframed instead of SSI'd.
 
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