Page OK in Firefox, Two huge errors in IE

Sciath · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

http://sciath.webs.com/Index.html

Just to be clear, I work in Java and C++, I'm god-awful with HTML. A lot of my musings and theories as to the cause of my problem, although I think they might be of use to whoever decides to help, are likely to be incorrect anyway. So I'm sorry if any of my overly verbose 'insights' turn out to be just hooey.

While designing the site, I only checked my work in Firefox. (I never anticipated that the two browsers would handle frames differently.) Now I need to find some way of having IE display the site exactly as Firefox does. I'm thinking that I'll have to create a 2nd Index page for IE, but I still need to know exactly what the differences are between how each browser handles frames. (Or, at least, the differences that are relevant to me.) My hypothesized solution:

Rather than nesting framesets, I thought I might try an Index page with 2 rows, each of which consists of a single FRAME SRC tag. Each page that each SRC tag refers to would be split into, again, only 2 frames.

This, of course, assumes that the problem is IE being unable to recognize nested framesets. Yet another flaw in my logic, I suspect, is that, in IE, the first frame is recognized as the 'main' frame for the purposes of placing that pesky freewebs footer ad. So, even if I find a way to have IE correctly display the site's entire layout, I doubt that the problem of the footer ad's incorrect location will be resolved.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4288 Location: MS

Some HTML Errors to correct.

Firefox is the browser to use for checking your site as it is the only browser closest to meeting CSS2.1/HTML 4.01 Standards. IE is just plain junky. IE does have a lot of bugs. You may have to use conditional statements to get it to behave.

You are not using a proper frameset document type on your pages and causing IE and FF to kick into Quirks Mode.