I have had multiple problems with IE not loading my stuff correctly, but when I go to mozzilla it works perfect. I have checked my code countless times. Is there something special that messes up in IE? thanks, - Metalic
You aren't descriptive enough, so right now, your answer is "depends." There are many IE bugs, but not sure what you mean about "loading".
Yes well the problem is that Mozilla is more standards-compliant than IE, so while Mozilla follows most of the rules IE does not, and therefore displays pages differently to how they might show up in Mozilla as the two browers are set to display differently. For example all browsers have different ways of default margin and padding to paragrpahs. However these problem can easily be overcome by substitute code, or small hacks. As the problems are unique and individual you would need to show your code, or post a link to your site for somebody to help fix the specific problem!!
if you're referring to CSS layout problems, yea. you have to test for firefox/ie6/ie7 and I do safari just in case. check out the browser usages currently: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp gives you an idea of what browser to care about. the best rule of thumb; I find, is ALWAYS put margin and padding to 0 most things. If you have a <p> tag, some browsers throw 20 pixels on top, where others may only put 10px. you should google the "box model" talk about some stupid rules that the browser people can't agree upon. for testing I use IE tester http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage gives you ie-5/6/7/8 to test in, be aware it's a lil buggy. from my experience, you CAN get your design to work and look right in all browsers. its a huge time sink, it will drive you nuts, but it can be done.
This list of IE bugs has been very helpful: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html Good to see the usage stats for IE6 keep dropping. Just hope they don't level out above 10%