Hi- I am having a website created by someone else. He has created most of the site but tells me he doesn't know why it looks different in IE than in FireFox and Chrome. Here are images of the same page in IE and in FireFox. Note, the ads rotate so they aren't the same, but as you can see the color scheme is completely different. I know a little about web design, but not enough and evidently the guy I have working on this isn't that knowledgeable either. The first image is IE the second one is FireFox Any suggestions?
It looks like two different fonts are being used. was the site designed using default fonts? (arial, helvetica, times new roman, verdana) Some browsers will render fonts different - safari and IE7 for example have anti-aliasing which smooths edges etc and can make sizes look different... Also, could it be something as simple as the default text-size/screen zoom in your browser is set to other than normal? in Firefox for example you can change text size thru View/Text Size - if you have this in FF as smaller than "normal" then font will display as slightly smaller...
Frustrating, isn't it I'm sure you can put some codes in there for IE. Many code writers take in consideration the fact that there are several different browsers and behaviors. There should be a little tweak you can add to get the result you need.
Some browsers use different configuration for displaying data.. this may be the reason that your site display is different from another browser.
Thanks for the reply The messages that show up in the body of the page are put into MySQL by myself, so I don't believe it is putting different fonts onto the site. And I do not have any special settings in FireFox that I can tell.
You can also check your site at http://browsershots.org/ . It lets you see how your site looks in various browsers. It's a time saver.
It is because the site CSS. Were you using table html in that website? table css much more safer to use
Notice what you said, that IE doesn't look like Chrome and Firerfox. I'd bet it doesn't look like Safari and Opera either. I'd also bet Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera all look the same as each other. So what does this tell you about IE? Internet Explorer is the worst browser on the planet. So if your coder used any of the other modern browsers to write the markup, then it should work fine everywhere but you'll have to hack it for IE but, without a link or the complete markup, we can only guess at the problem.
This is why I often see code written with a tweak included for the IE browser or sometimes netscape too. I notice this A LOT especially in wordpress theme/template write ups. I am thankful that the coders help us to have pages that work in all the browsers.
IE is a pain. Build a iste in IE6 and it is messed up in IE8, not a very good idea, id want my users to not have to learn how to style a page with ever new version of a product. Style a page in firefox any version and it looks good in almost anything, opera, safari and all ff and noqw chrome In IE8, billy gave us the compat mode, whoopdy do. lol, because obviously users need to have to switch it , since it will enhance the user experience so much more. This is an illusion, liek what you see in the desert, like the nasty "V" word, err i guess that is mojave now.
He needs to include the font being used in the script so that all browsers can recognize the font being used. A friend did this once for me
Great tip, bobgreen . Also, IE has settings in security that you can choose to download or not download fonts on a page. If you choose not to, then the font on the page will be shown as the same as your machine's defalt I learned this when I was helping a person with a website. I had completed a lot of building per his instruction .. on my own pc. Then when we went over some details - using his laptop, the site looked different because of his IE settings.