for asking, but whilst I have been on the internet for years what currently irks me is the variation in page display between the browsers I use...
I use MSN explorer 90% of the time. The page layout is perfect, graphics and speed excellent, not all the advanced options are there but 90% of the time I do not use them.
I use IE6 (SP1) 5% of the time, like when I really want the google search bar. Ideally I'd like to use IE all the time but the graphics are screwy.
I use Netscape 7.1 at other times, like when I feel like tabbed windows. But this program hasn't had the speed of IE for a long time and regularly messes up form layout. It cannot be my main browser as versions >4.7 are rejected by some servers I need to access.
To illustrate the difference in page display here is a screen grab (1920x1200 res) - approx 2.5Mb jpeg, but I wanted to keep the quality up to demonstrate what I mean... If you have a decent connection please check to see what I mean
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richardje/ ... owsers.jpg
The main difference here is the blocky graphics which IE (centre) 'enlarges' (thus distorting), eg curves on the MSN tabs, the groups embem etc. A major problem when text is presented in gifs. Netscape (right) has its own problems as you can see.
MSN explorer (left) is the perfect browser for me, but I do not wish to continue using it. Now that MSN have a subscription based browser interface (MSN 8 ) I doubt they will continue to support this browser... They stopped providing downloads of the UK version months ago.
So does anyone have any ideas how I can make IE behave so that I can make the switch? Thanks if anyone can help
Rich
