Re: Differences between IE and Firefox

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:33:28 -0500
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc:	Janet Zagoria-Zagdesign <janet(at)zagdesign.com>
References:	co
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>On the lines of problems with IE6, I thought I would pass this on:
>I am on a Mac and do my desktop developing on Safari, IE5, Firefox, etc.
>
>I was developing a site for a client who has Windows, IE6. I have a Windows
>machine I can check out problems but I hadn't gotten to that point yet.
>
>My client told me that type that was supposed to be flush left (aka:
>align=left) was centered on his browser.
>
>Align=left was always a default so there was never a need to put it in the
>TD tag unless you were overriding a CSS command.

Align=left was not the default for everything.  For example, the content of 
a TH tag was defined to be centered, but early browsers defaulted to 
align=left.  This became a problem for some when more standards-compliant 
browsers were released.

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