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Cross Coding for IE and Netscape

I was working late night trying to finish this project that took me forever to get to, and things seem to be going good. I took it to work with me and showed off my late night work to my co-works. I got the approval on how it was a good job. I design the astonishing website, if I do say so myself, in FrontPage. I used FrontPage for a couple of reason:

  • It is easy to use. I have a character complex when I'm typing; it takes all day to type them. It is a time saver.
  • It's easy to jump from WYSIWYG to HTML source to preview. I'm not used to being connected to the Internet. All I have to do is click the preview tag and my browser don't have to jump online. This can be time consuming, especially when people are online.
  • The WYSIWYG helps me graphically see how the tables will measure up, and it's easy to edit properties. On top of all that when I forget how to code something I can quickly do it in WYSIWYG mode and remind myself.

FrontPage works, but there's one bit of advice when using FrontPage, understand that FrontPage is based on developing for Internet Explorer.

Of course I didn't know what type of trouble I was getting into before I tested it in Netscape. Oh my God you talking about a page that doesn't load, look, or illustrate correctly, it was this page. I had had problems before with Netscape, but never had I had a problem after I went though code to make ensure things was basic HTML. I had to do some troubleshooting, that I had never done before.

First there were the obvious differences between the two web browsers that I tried to fix. In the Internet Explore the page there's no margins, and in Netscape there is. I found out that Netscape and IE (from here on out it's IE instead of Internet Explorer) have different tag attributes in the <body> Tag. Each browser ignores the other's browser's attributes so it's no problem to place both attributes in the body tag.

Note: These attributes only work in browser from 4.x to beyond.
Internet Explorer "No Margin" attributes.
<body leftmargin="0" Topmargin="0">

Netscape's "No Margin" attributes.
<:body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

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