IE6 vs IE7 vs Firefox [Archive]

Briardlady

09-08-2006, 01:15 AM

Hi- First post, minimal experience.
I'm using DW8 to redo a FP site I've had for several years. I don't have it up anywhere yet, still have the old site.

A while back I downloaded IE7. IE6 has now disappeared from my computer. How can I get it back and keep it to preview my site as I work? And have IE7?

Also - in IE7 my font (I'm using "small") appears huge when I preview in IE7. If I go to 12px, looks even larger. I can browse other sites without this happening, any idea what could be happening? In FF it looks right, and in Netscape. First line of my code is
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
should I declare a different doctype? My old eyes like the big type, but it looks childish. I don't have any special settings on my computer, such as large fonts.

TIA!

jl

Kravvitz

09-08-2006, 02:32 AM

You can get a standalone version of IE6. (http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone)
Be sure to read these two articles:
http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/multipleie.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/multiIE.html
Even more articles on this. (http://www.google.com/search?q=multiple+ie)

Make sure that the default font-size is set to medium in IE. It's located in Page ==> Text Size.

It's best to use HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict. Don't forget to validate your code. (http://validator.w3.org/)

I suggest you read these:
em vs. px (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=392410)
Best Practice for font-size? (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=389839)