A Curious Question

[Nathan]

So, I pretty much know how to stylesheet (who doesn't) and basic html (duh) but know very little about advanced coding.

To make it simple, I am just curious why some code works in some browser and doesn't in others.

Just a curious question

[RedBassett]

There are standards set for how languages work with browsers, however not all browsers conform to every standard. Most basic CSS or JS should work with anything, however some browsers (IE famously so), decide they want to do something differently.

In addition to how the browser works, plugins or addons that the user has installed can also affect how code runs.

[Nathan]

Is it true that FF "auto-corrects" incomplete, faulty scripts; whereas IE reads them as written?

[RedBassett]

I don't know specifically. I have only really used FF, Chrome, and Safari, and all of them have made some attempt to fix broken code.

[Nathan]

Jun 21, 2012 7:01:50 GMT -8 RedBassett said:

I don't know specifically. I have only really used FF, Chrome, and Safari, and all of them have made some attempt to fix broken code.

Seems that could be terribly inconvenient at times.

[RedBassett]

They don't do much, they will just try to catch unclosed or unbalanced HTML for the most part.

[coolcoolcool]

Jun 21, 2012 7:05:15 GMT -8 RedBassett said:

They don't do much, they will just try to catch unclosed or unbalanced HTML for the most part.

This.

For example, someone I work with accidentally put a script tag before the html opening tag in our system. It went unnoticed, because we mainly use firefox as our browser, but when we opened up internet explorer it totally destroyed the page formatting and caused the main table to stretch across the screen.

I went through the code and as I did so I fixed any W3C standard issues and was shocked that the simple act of putting a script tag in the wrong place could wreck so much havoc in IE.

Standards are there for a reason. If you follow them to the letter you won't have many problems. The only real issues you end up having to deal with his positioning of elements and spacing issues, but even that isn't a problem if you style correctly. IE does have a knack for screwing things up though.

[Violin - Soul Power]

you think about IE version ?or other browser? update? like a flash player or java runtime