[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

is it formatted correctly to a type of drive that os x can read? that’d be my first guess as to the culprit…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

Brian’s recommendations are good ones, but also just try the net – there are tons of sites dedicated to the differences in css and layout between browsers, and they tend to be more current and also provide real-time examples for you to see what the subtle differences are…plus that saves you $50… 🙂

(and come here and ask – we’re always glad to help!)

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

unless there’s an html link to a file in another file (not in a flash movie but a parsable html link), bots can’t find it… :-/

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

the big old one is on the w3 site:

https://validator.w3.org/

but there are others as well:

https://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Data_Formats/HTML/Validation_and_Checkers/

hope that helps!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

hmm – the primary issue was that you had all your table widths and heights as fixed pixel values – so if my browser wasn’t 1300 pixels wide or Y pixels tall, then it wouldn’t adjust. here’s your same page with some percentages and a wrapper table that forces to 100%

https://www.sitruc.com/cow/ssus/

works in ie in xp fine, and is very close on safari, but i am short on time today so alas i can’t play with it more to get it more cross-browser friendly…but it’s very easy to pull off…

here’s a very simple example of what you’re trying to do – maybe build from this?

https://www.applecorps.com/

hope that helps!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

there’s some good examples here:

https://irt.org/script/frame.htm

specifically this one might do it for ya:

https://irt.org/script/206.htm

but if not, scan through the questions on that first page and you’ll find a good example in there…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – you can do an javascript onload in each frame that says the equivalent of “if top.location.href == self.location.href” then redirect page to the desired frame…or just see if the frame has a parent and if not then redirect – either one of those models should work…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i guess i tend to be a bit more old school (having been at this since long before css was around) – i tend to just use tables and other more simple elements to control layout, as opposed to going full css…i personally think that it’s a smidge overkill, and i almost always put things like headers, nav areas, footers, etc. into global templates, which helps alleviate the need for global css control of those elements…

so basically the primary things that i always put into css are:

– link styles
– font styles
– page content styles (line-height, font, etc.)
– anything else that i don’t have in a global header, nav or footer template

but that’s just me – i know that a lot of people enjoy doing sites in all css, but what i’ve found is that the headache of getting those to work perfectly across browsers is often not worth the time spent. in other words, the primary benefit of css is that they are global styles that i can change to quickly alter the layout of a site – that’s why they were invented. but i won’t probably be spending a lot of time changing the nav menu spacing or other core layout elements very much, so i find it more efficient to just use plain html to control things like that and save myself what you’re running into here – the bizarre little differences that pop up between browsers. i know css and styles very well, but even i will constantly find that a certain style acts differently between browsers and platforms – so when it comes to css styles that are very position-dependent, i’ll typically just use plain html to get the same effect, because i know that will be much more reliable from the start across browsers…

one thing i would _strongly_ recommend against is using absolute positioning for elements. this is a death wish if you have a site that will have content changing or that needs to be maintained. i have seen sites in the past where every element on the page was positioned down to the pixel and a user wanted to double the copy in the body area – you can imagine the time that is spent to reposition everything to fit the copy and what would have been needed if everything was built to flow in relation to other things on the page…

just my $.02… 🙂

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i believe that there are a few apps out there that will help you hack this (i.e. there’s no os x setting for it) – you could try version tracker for that…

however, the low-budget way to pull it off is to put your desired wallpaper into /Library/Desktop Pictures and rename it to “Aqua Blue.jpg” (i.e. replace the one that’s there) – it would eliminate that original wallpaper as an option, but since that’s the one used on that login screen, it will make your wallpaper the one that is there…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[Jennifer] “That Macs can’t get them”

it’s not that macs can’t get them – it’s that they’re less susceptible to them because the unix underneath is a bit more secure and because people just don’t write them for macs because they have 5% of the market, and it’s a lot harder for a virus to spread over that size a group of users (and therefore a lot less fun for the virus writer)…

but macs do have security issues, so it’s important to keep up on patches and follow the same rules as on pcs – don’t download stuff from places you don’t know about and in general be as careful as you can with basic security (don’t run under admin, disable root, etc)…

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