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Boogle · 11-09-2007, 06:15 AM

Hey Costin,

I solved the problem shown above now, basically, i did a bad job of the slicing and so what photoshop did was insert some fake-non-images called 'spacers' with the width and height of the images set on the fly, which are supposed to take care of my bad slicing... because they weren't actually images, FF wouldn't render them and so the 'spacers' weren't actually there...

I re-did the slicing and infact decided to put the images inside divs manually and it works much better; NOTE TO ALL THOUGH: SLICING IS A BAD TECHNIQUE I HAVE FOND OUT THROUGH EXPERIENCE!

Not only does it create silly work with stupid tables etc, it also won't be SEO friendly (i think) as your text i actually an image and so to make it SEO friendy you would have to use the 'longdesc' of the <img> tag if i'm thinking right and tbh that's too much of a farce!

So all in allthis browser compatability issue is a learning curve... and a slow one at that!

One question Costin: I can't fathom out why FF/Opera renders padding and margins different to IE... like do you know the different ways they do it? Some of my container boxes just don't like up and i know it's because of margins and padding but i can't set them so it works correctly for both?

Thanks,

Boog's

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Boogle Contributing Member Join Date: 09-03-07 Location: England Posts: 422 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Hey Costin, I solved the problem shown above now, basically, i did a bad job of the slicing and so what photoshop did was insert some fake-non-images called 'spacers' with the width and height of the images set on the fly, which are supposed to take care of my bad slicing... because they weren't actually images, FF wouldn't render them and so the 'spacers' weren't actually there... I re-did the slicing and infact decided to put the images inside divs manually and it works much better; NOTE TO ALL THOUGH: SLICING IS A BAD TECHNIQUE I HAVE FOND OUT THROUGH EXPERIENCE! Not only does it create silly work with stupid tables etc, it also won't be SEO friendly (i think) as your text i actually an image and so to make it SEO friendy you would have to use the 'longdesc' of the <img> tag if i'm thinking right and tbh that's too much of a farce! So all in allthis browser compatability issue is a learning curve... and a slow one at that! One question Costin: I can't fathom out why FF/Opera renders padding and margins different to IE... like do you know the different ways they do it? Some of my container boxes just don't like up and i know it's because of margins and padding but i can't set them so it works correctly for both? Thanks, Boog's __________________ Great new 'June' Javascript Framework June Forums - Innovative JScripting Price is what you pay... Value is what you get.