Formatting Woes, Browsers ‘perspective’ and LiveWriter

September 3rd, 2008
by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)

I fought off LiveWriter for quite some time.  I did.  But then I said "Well, if I can do proper aspect ratio and movability of images" then I’m sold.

And I am/was sold.  Except it’s not exactly what it says on the tin.   Because it depends upon the browser.

I just published this wonderful article on the amazing and legendary Molly Marlette, and then came "Browser testing"  End result looks like this:

This is how it SHOULD look:

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This is also how it happened to render inside of IE (Imagine that: No problem here)

Well, FireFox had different ideas, and looks like this:

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Worse still, in my active testing process, Google Chrome comes out looking like this:

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When I would write up my stuff manually (hacking the HTML as I went) I didn’t run into these alignment and formatting issues! I call it Browser Shock!

If you were to ask the question "Which Browser is right? They’re all reading the same data" I agree.  Except IE is correct, because is the WYSIWYG how I created it, so I would hope the other browsers would respect that and not be so absolutely different :)

So, if you happen to read across browsers and notice that sometimes my posts look abysmal – I blame the browser (And I do try to clean it up to look good across them, but as you can… it’s not exactly the most "winning" battle)

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  2. Zach Loeber Says:

    I would blame improperly handled css. Every browser seems to handle it differently and IE’s record for following web standards isn’t really stellar. Try to code some cross-browser css some day and you will really be in for some browser shock. The number of work arounds for IE’s inability to parse and display css correctly is amazing. To be fair, ALL browsers fail CSS standards in some way or another from what I have seen.

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