Re: frame size erratta in netscape.

the difference I think you'll find is that IE puts only about 10 pixels
margin while NN puts about 15.  Use the topmargin, leftmargin, marginheight,
marginwidth attributes in the body tag to make this uniform

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Matthews" <jits(at)ihug.co.nz>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: frame size erratta in netscape.


> Hi,
>
> I'm doing my yearly revamp of my personal pages. The ones that I never
> update again until I revamp them a year later that is....
>
> Anyway, Stage one was a menu, left frame.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> http://www.slack.net/~clouds/kyle/
>
> In ie 5.01, it worked fine with a frame the size of 156 pixels, which is
> good, because that's the width that i set the menu.html to. Then I tried
> looking at it in netscape 4.08, and the menu.html disappeared off under
the
> frame.
>
> Now before you say it's because I've got a border on the page, it isn't.
> Comparing the two browsers side by side (on top of each other really),
> shows that netscape makes a smaller actual frame, using the same pixel
> size. So:
>
> 1. Can anyone replicate this effect - netscape actually producing a
smaller
> frame than ie.
>
> 2. Can anyone tell me which other browsers do this - netscape 3, netscape
> 2? I don't have either on my system.
>
> 3. Aargh, am I going to have to use a sniffer to make different frame
> sizes??? :P
>
> TIA,
>
> Kyle
>

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