Re: Neophyte Question --Frontpage Express 2.0 and Netscape

Duane:

There is nothing inherent in FrontPage Express that would make
tables display improperly in Netscape. Therefore, there is no
"conversion" of such code.

Regardless of what you may hear, HTML is HTML and it is WHAT we
try to do with it that causes the problem. All WYSIWYG editors
are forced by their very nature to render code for the
"mouse-ing" around we do--ONE ELEMENT AT A TIME.

So--when you pull up a page that was done in one kind of WYSIWYG
editor and start messing with it, it is quite possible--indeed
quite probable--that you will get some extra and unwanted
attributes. This does not mean that either editor was wrong in
any way.

This same kind of miss-mash often occurs when one hand coder
starts messing about with a page someone else created.

The first thing you must do is, go back over the elements that
you have placed on the page and be sure that each element/object
is compatible in Netscape.

Then check the code around the offending objects, especially the
table structure. Look for extra <td>'s and such.

You could also give us a URL to look at. We could pull it up in
the full FrontPage and REALLY mess it up for you. OR--we might
actually get lucky and find the problem.

Good luck and best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
http://www.temercraft.com
http://www.newsredding.com/




>I have recently made changes to a web page using Frontpage
Express 2.0. The
>original html was done on a Mac using GoLive CyberStudio. The
apparent
>"non-standard" recoding of the tables does not allow tthem to
display
>properly on Netscape anymore. Is there a quick and easy
conversion to the
>Frontpage code that will retain the webpage layout but make the
html valid
>for both IE and Netscape? Or, am I stuck with manually recoding
it?
>
>Thanks for the help in advance!
>
>Sincerely,
>H. Duane Neubauer, Jr.
>Owner, Innovative Computer & Information Services (ICIS)
>"Where Ideas become reality"
>
>Email: hdneubauer(at)IEEE.org
>
>

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