On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Hi people, As a webmaster, I have a problem with FireFox not being compatible with IE. A few years ago I stopped checking my website with any browser other than IE - for economical reasons: most users use IE. Now I do check my website occasionally with FireFox, but some things are just not compatible. Here are a few examples:
How about checking your pages with a html validator like w3c.org ? w3c.org are the people who maintain the html standard. They know better than both ff and m$.
1. Music - When you enter some of my pages, such as http://www.speedy.co.il/composer/ , with IE, you hear music automatically. When you enter with FireFox you don't (at least not on my computer, or maybe you have to install a plugin).
You use a MIDI file and most current linux installs do not have a midi player installed by default. Choose a different format and it will work fine. Also use the validator as above. You may be surprised. I regularly surf on sites with background music with ff and it works fine. Pick any normal file format, even mp3, and it will work fine. midi sounds different on each computer because the instrument specification is not complete.
2. JavaScript - my mail site [http://mail.speedy.co.il/] is not fully compatible with FireFox. For example, when you enter your account with IE, selecting a line changes its color and you can select all lines at once. With FireFox it just doesn't work.
m$ flavor JavaScript is m$ flavor JavaScript, not JavaScript. Again, there is a standard. Find it and use it.
My question is, how do I overcome these difficulties as a webmaster, without having to invest too much time? As you know FireFox users are a minority, and you can't spend too much time on satisfying the needs of a minority. It's just not economical.
The minority is about 20% and increasing. One person in five has problems accessing your site.
By the way, these problems are one of the reasons why I don't use FireFox as a user. I just don't want to lose features when I surf at non-FireFox-compatible websites. And there are no non-IE-compatible websites. Not as far as I know.
Boy, are you wrong. Peter ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
