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Homepage makeover

I just put my new homepage online. I did a complete refurbishment of it.
I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time, and already did some experiments to try to get the correct layout. Using tables it’s not so hard – just a lot of HTML code. But since tables should not be used to layout document content, and “authors should use style sheets to control layout rather than tables”, according to the W3C, I wanted to redo the layout using DIVs. That took me some time to work out, but I finally got it, just the way I want to. In a real browser, that is. It’s amazing to see how Microsoft Internet Explorer can f*ck up the layout. This is what my homepage looks like in IE, and this is what it should look like. Well, maybe I’ll sort it out some time. If you have a great idea, please let me know.

Tags: bvrolijk.net, html, ie

3 Comments to Homepage makeover

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   You *could* try Dean Edwards’ IE7 (http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/), a set of scripts (‘behaviors’, actually) that force IE into acting like a normal browser.
Vincent on October 18th, 2004
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   That was MT messing up the URL. But you’ll get it, I think.
Vincent on October 18th, 2004
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   Wow, Vincent, it seems to work… a little bit, at least. It’s still not perfect, but it’s much, much bettter than before!

   Still a bit silly though, that I need 30 kilobytes of javascript code to “repair” my perfectly good HTML code, just for IE to understand it…

   But thanks very much for the tip!
Benjamin on October 18th, 2004

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