webpage looks different from IE to Firefox?

Question

i've designed a homepage for a website i'm creating.it has several graphics on it all JPEG, but when previewing it in a browser it looks different in IE to forefox. is this common?

it isnt a major issue but i cant see why this is the case. incidentally i am using Frontpage to design it, and have noticed that previewing the page using the 'Preview' tab at the bottom makes it look different again to either the IE or firefox previews.

to describe the page, then it has one large central JPEG graphic with a title on it, and 8 smaller JPEG pictures, 4 either side of it, and then there are two lines of text beneath all that.

in IE the text is higher on the screen than on firefox, and in the preview pane its beneath the level of sight, you have to use the side bars to pull it into view... any ideas why?

Answer 1

Because both Firefox and Internet Explorer are made by different people, the way they display pages might be a bit different.



There are a certain set of standards set by an organization called 'w3', which every internet browser is supposed to conform by. However Microsoft prefer to do it their way, and I do not think they follow those standards 100% in their web browsers.

Answer 2

I've noticed this too!!! 8-o WTF!



Personally, I prefer FireFox, and that's all I use - but I guess as a web designer you have to think about what people visiting your site are using - not everyone uses the same browser you do.



I guess it's just the way the browser engine is coded. They use different mechanisms. For that matter... I bet Google Chrome will look different too. I've never tried that one, so don't know.

Answer 3

Part of the reason that it is doing this is because IE and FF both use different "default" settings, different fonts. different default window sizes. The code you are making needs to be more specific about the position of text and pictures. Unfortunately frontpage isn't very good at doing this, you'll probably need to use CSS to do it efficiently.