Hi all,

I know this may seem a little odd since I don't do anything with PHP but...........My question is this: Is there any way to code a PHP page so that it displays uniformly across all browsers?

Some Flash Kit members have had problems with the Flash Kit site not rendering properly in FireFox. I even checked the page source on the forums and I found out that they don't even use XHTML

Thanks in advance

Ben Horne
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Most likely using FireFox and concocting my next Macromedia Flash project
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PHP is a background language. It doesn't display anything at all. XHTML is markup code, for displaying. It all depends on how you output your markup. If it's XHTML, then it's XHTML. If it's not, then it's not.

So basically, PHP has just about nothing to do with it.

And there are some XHTML pages that will not display the same in all browsers, usually due to lack of CSS/standards support (guess which browser I'm talking about?).

HTH

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:DI know what you're talking about. It's Internet Explorer. Really, I guess that even some websites don't display very well in FireFox either.


Get this, though. Flash Kit is adhering to the HTML 4.01 Transitional. Dang hippies:D

Ben Horne
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The only reason a website will display badly in Firefox or another standards-compliant browser is because people code for IE because people use IE. If people would stop coding for IE, people would stop using IE, and coders' lives would be so much easier because they don't have to hack to make their websites work!

So, I've stopped coding for IE and hacking for other browsers, and instead code standards-compliant and hack for IE (hopefully someday I won't have to :-) ).

BTW, FlashKit's code isn't valid anything.... it's just a hopeless mess of text that satisfies IE, mostly because of vBulletin's lack of support for standards. 317 errors! Does no one care about standards anymore?

I guess I'll stop rambling now.. :-)

Cheers,

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Snib,

I hate to disagree with you since you obviously know a lot about Web design but I have to respectfully do so.:)


I have a pretty strong background designing web pages and let me say this: If your web page doesn't diplay nicely, people are going to stop coming to it. They won't stop using IE because people stop coding for that browser. So really, in the end, it's the designer who's to blame. Not the browser.

  As yasunobu13 said (and very well BTW), It's IE that needs the most hacks. Sure, there will be differences in how a web page displays on Mozilla for Mac and for PC but those are minor. The display differences in IE 5 on Mac/PC and in IE 6 are huge

Ben Horne
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Welcome to the New Age

Ben,

I do agree with you, but I confused myself in my thread, what I meant to say is that if people stop using IE, people won't have to code for IE. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Yes, yasunobu13 is right, IE needs the hacks. Does 2 + 2 = 5, except for standards-compliant browsers, or does 2 + 2 = 4, except for IE? :-)

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Let's just hope that Microshiz starts coding IE so that it corresponds with web standards. If they don't screw them. No one need's them anyway.

**THis is says as he uses IE. What a shame :-(

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