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UGS Assassin
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Posts: 4,547 Band: Wülfstabber, Thee Moths, The Black Plums, Catface, DJ Wrong Homer, Wings & Claws, Señor Citizen, WRRRMS
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Do websites look the same in all browsers?
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
I tried it with a load of different browsers, both on Mac and PC..... First up, my MacBook (I didn't bother with a Seamonkey shot, as the rendering was the same as the other Mozilla based browsers) ![]() Note: the IE6 shot was the Windows version running under CrossOver - not sure if the disastrously poor rendering was down to poor emulation or (I suspect) a crappy browser. Then I noticed the 'snapshot' preview on LJ rendered it differently again - ![]() ...while the NetNewsWire browser seems to have more in common with Shiira and Safari - ![]() A couple of XP shots show the font rendering differently (these are from Gord and a reader of my LJ)- ![]() ![]() Finally I opened it in Vista with both Firefox and IE7 - ![]() ![]() Anyone care to share their versions, and set-ups? Would be especially interested in seeing a Safari/PC combo and whatever comes up in Linux. |
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rambling boy of pleasure
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Midlands
Posts: 4,218 Band: The ShuttleCocks
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wouldn't it be dependant on the font type?
you can locally install a font with the same name, that is completely different, which isn't really the browser's fault. |
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UGS Assassin
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Posts: 4,547 Band: Wülfstabber, Thee Moths, The Black Plums, Catface, DJ Wrong Homer, Wings & Claws, Señor Citizen, WRRRMS
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Here's the html -
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen, projection"> body { margin: 0; padding: 10em; font: small Baskerville, Georgia, serif; background: #dfd5c5 url(tile.gif); } h1 { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 70px 0; font-size: 1400%; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; text-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #a0937f; white-space: nowrap; color: #48433d; background: url(flourish.png) no-repeat 50% 100%; } </style> </head> <body> <h1><em>NO!</em></h1> </body> </html> |
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UGS Assassin
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Posts: 4,547 Band: Wülfstabber, Thee Moths, The Black Plums, Catface, DJ Wrong Homer, Wings & Claws, Señor Citizen, WRRRMS
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Oh, and notice that the Shiira, Safari and NetNewsWire browsers all render the text with a shadow.
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UGS Assassin
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Posts: 4,547 Band: Wülfstabber, Thee Moths, The Black Plums, Catface, DJ Wrong Homer, Wings & Claws, Señor Citizen, WRRRMS
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From looking at these it seems that Safari and Shiira render more pleasingly than the others. |
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Hardcore is serious guys
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Dundee
Posts: 6,327 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist
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It's reasonable for the text to be rendered in a different font, if it can't find the requested font on the system.
That's why there are multiple fonts specified in this style declaration font: small Baskerville, Georgia, serif; If it can't find the first one, it'll fall back to the next one in the list. If it can't find Small Baskerville or Georgia, it'll fall back to whatever the default serif font is. Another important thing to be aware of, is that depending on the contents (or abscence of the DOCTYPE entries at the top of the document, Firefox might render the content in "quirks mode", or "almost standard" mode, which renders the page in a non-standard way, to deal with older pages that were written to specifically cater for the quirks of older browsers. As for the drop shadow, I did a bit of googling, and it looks like firefox doesn't fully support it yet. As for IE, IE has always been a horrible browser, most likely due to Microsoft's habit of supporting a standard, then changing or adding things to their version, so that competing software that follows the standard fucks up when it tries to read files that use their non-standard extensions. Last edited by humndislocation : 3rd May 2008 at 01:08 PM. |
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UGS Assassin
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Posts: 4,547 Band: Wülfstabber, Thee Moths, The Black Plums, Catface, DJ Wrong Homer, Wings & Claws, Señor Citizen, WRRRMS
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Overall it's an interesting little game showing how websites render differently in different browsers.
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Dundee
Posts: 4,140 Band: They are make believe
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There are dramatical differences when dealing with form objects and as mentioned, div tags and CSS stylings etc. When I get home I'll take a few screenshots of a site or something to demonstrate. Opera, IE, Safari and Firefox all look considerably different. Some is down to default font handling mind.
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