Web page not fully compatable on all pc's

ej1245 · Dec 9, 2005

This has got me totally baffled. I created a web site with MSFT Publisher. It has a page with a "more details" link in it to other pages. For some mysterious reason it only works on about half the computers that have tried the web site?! Two of which were macs. I've tried deleting the cache, reloading the page to the server, even opening the index file with Dreamweaver, then doing a browser view, it works fine on my machine. I'm not too good with html, (pretty much novice, but have worked a little with dreamweaver) What other things could be affecting compatabilty? I'm unable to experience the error, the three computers that it won't work on unfortunetly are across the country, all the ones I've tried locally, it works fine???!

chasezcw · Dec 9, 2005

hit me with the website that has that link that doesn't work... extra details page link....

is the rest of the site ok from over the country? is it whole site problems or just the new page(s).

bytegoddess · Dec 15, 2005

I think that I may be able to offer you some insight into what's happening with your pages...

Many people who don't have a lot of experience with programming and such find that it's really easy and fun to create a Web page in a program such as Microsoft Publisher or Word or some other program that gives one the option to save one's work as an HTML document. The documents look great on the machine they are created on, and on machines with the same basic configurations as the original machine, but once one tries to view them on another machine with different settings/software/etc., they look different from the author's design.

As an example, I have created a simple table in Notepad, with nothing fancy at all, just a border setting and some centering of the table and its cells. It will render a bit differently on different browsers, depending on the default font setting and how the borders are drawn on the screen, but no matter... the point I want to make here is that if you were to make the same table in MS Publisher 2003, for example, there would be 100 times more code generated by the software, which might or might not be interpreted by the user's browser. Copy the text below into Notepad, save it as an HTML file, and then open and views it. Now open the file in MS Publisher or Word or whatever... then save it with a new name. When you open the file in Notepad again, you will witness what's happened to the code... is it any wonder that different browsers on different machines often have trouble deciding what to make of it?

There are many excellent free HTML tutorials on the Web, and if you are worried about compatibility, you should definitely take a look at the World Wide Web Consortium's site at http://www.w3.org/, which will educate you well on things like ensuring the compatibility and portability of your created content. I hope that this is helpful to you -- good luck!

<html>
<body>
<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=300 height=250 border=1 align=center>
<tr align=center>
<td width=99 height=49>R1C1</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R1C2</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R1C3</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center>
<td width=99 height=49>R2C1</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R2C2</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R2C3</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center>
<td width=99 height=49>R3C1</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R3C2</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R3C3</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center>
<td width=99 height=49>R4C1</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R4C2</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R4C3</td>
</tr>
<tr align=center>
<td width=99 height=49>R5C1</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R5C2</td>
<td width=99 height=49>R5C3</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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