SPWD

I recently found an interesting tool call BrowserCamp that allows users to obtain a free screen shot of what their web site would look like in the Safari 2.0.4 web browser. It also offers paid memberships that allow users to login in via VNC to take control of a Mac OS X machine to use it for testing web sites with. Pretty cool little tool really! They even offer a referral program to allow one to obtain free time by referring other paid members. (And no the link here is not a referral link, but it should be!).

Here’s a screenshot of this site:

Recently for a school project I was working on, I had to develop an XTHML 1.1 Strict validated page and a validated CSS to style the page. This was not a problem in and of itself, however there were several problems that I encountered while trying to serve the pages to different browsers and to the W3C’s validator.

What this post will attempt to do is cover several items that I found necessary to accomplish a page that displayed properly in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Netscape 9, SeaMonkey, Opera and Safari for Windows. I have not fully tested the resulting pages on the Linux or Mac platforms yet, so I will attempt to do that when time permits. I did however use BrowserCamp to get a screen shot of what it looks like in Safari 2.0.4 and there were some CSS issues (I assume anyway).

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