Page not compatable with Safari

Hi, I'm a real newbie to web site creation, however I put one together on my PC with dreamweaver, and IE 6 only to find when one of its pages is viewed on the imac's safari browser its all screwed up. I have these "The frameborder attribute of the FRAMESET tag is not supported. [Safari 2.0]" errors when I run dreamweavers browser check.. I don't know how to fix them without screwing up the pages. Anyone have any info or links for more help with this? thanx!

 

Wow, I'm suprised most people don't usually bother caring about safari, since it only accounts for .4% of web browsers and it doesn't support a lot of the standards.

I'm not really sure if you can fix the error within dreamweaver, unless of course you're willing to change the design a bit so as not to require frames. You might have to edit the code in html otherwise. It's kinda hard to say if we can't see the webpage though.

 

Browser compatibility. The bane of all web designers.

Ok well a good start would be to run your page through the w3c validator:
http://validator.w3.org/

You WILL (in all likelyhood) need to change your code. This is the only way to ensure that your page will work with all browsers!!

As for frames, well, they're a bad idea from the start. There is no need to use them these days for the average page. I don't think I've ever seen a website which uses classic frames that I would call a good design.

 

Actually, Safari supports more standards than IE does, and passes the Acid2 test with flying colors. Its right up there with Camino and Firefox, although somewhat less secure (not on an IE scale though).

 

ok, heres the site... http://adele_lloyd.home.comcast.net/ the reason I have to fix it is cuz Adele has a mac! If she didn't live on the other side of the country I would just go over and see the errors! Supposedly the "portraits" page has paintings overlapping in some way. I wish I hadn't used frames too, but I really don't want to start over...blah.

 

I don't see any problem with browser compatibility. I've compared between Firefox and Safari, and see no differences, nothing overlaps, until I start playing with browser window size.

The paintings link doesnt work. The website doesn't scale to different resolutions worth a hoot, which is probably the entire problem.

PM me an email address, and I'll send you screenshots of both.

 

I see, I bet Adele doesn't have her screen maximized. I do want to figure out how to auto rescale the screen for screen sizes, the text on the homepage doesn't resize for a smaller monitor, and I would like to do away with scroll bars on that page if possible. Hmmm, the links worked fine for me earlier.

 

Paintings link just spews out raw html in the left frame.

 

Heres the fixed page... http://webpages.charter.net/jess1/ but now I want to figure out how to make the text area on the home page auto resize for screen sizes. I've poured through help and can't get the answer, the rest of the images on the page resize fine! Can you give me some info?

 

I'll take a look, but make no promises. I am a novice web designer, at best. I've never really worked with frames.

 

Just so you know ej1245, auto resizing for screen sizes is basicly never, ever done. It also shouldn't be done, because people runn higher or lower screen sizes so that they can see things bigger or smaller, so if you're shrinking text when they have a big resolution, you're likely going to be upsetting the people with a big resolution because you are fighting what they are trying to do.

That being said, if you really want to do it. All you'd do is use JS to find their resolution and then an if statement or CASE to define the text size based on the res. But I'd highly recommend not doing this.

 

I'm guessing that the poster wants to get rid of the scroll bar that gets introduced to the main frame when the size is changed. No need to shrink text to do that.

I could be wrong with the poster's intentions, however.

 

What scroll bar? I can size the thing down to a nice 5x5 window or a nice 3200x1200 window and I see no scroll bars at any point in IE or firefox.

 

There may not be one now, but there was the first time I checked the URL.

The site has been modified since.

I know this, because the original URL had a broken link, that has now been fixed.