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Problems faced with the new IE8 and Firefox3

 
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Hi,

The website that i have created was built to support IE6,IE7 and Firefox 2. Now with the arrival of IE8 and Firefox 3. I need to support even these browsers - business need. Now with these 2 browsers the rendering has gone for a toss not to mention that i think the way parsing xml by these browsers using xpath has also changed. What bugs me even more is the lack of support for these browsers on the net. So if anyone has any idea about the difference between these two browsers and their previous versions especially when it comes to CSS, javascript and xml parsing please help
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Are you using Standards Compliance Modes by adding the correct doc-type to our pages?

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Hi
Yes we are adding proper doctype to all our pages but somehow things have gone all wrong
 
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Hi
i have just found a way to parse the xml in FireFox 3 using xPath, it is just that firefox 3 is far more strict when it comes to syntax and you are not allowed any leeway, a little bit of discipline solves the problem. That leaves me with the css problem and finding support on the net for firefox 3 is difficult. If any of you can find or know of any link that can help me please let me know.
IE8 is still in beta so firefox3 is high priority right now

Thanks for your help
 
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Hi,

I don't know if this will interest you guys but i seem to have found a solution to the css problem in firefox 3. There is something weird that goes on in firefox 3.Consider the following code

[div style='position:absolute;height:300px']
[div style='width:300px;'] Hi [/div]
[/div]

In IE6,IE7 and Firefox 2 the default width for the outer div would be 100%.
However, in Firefox 3 there is no default width for a div that has its position set as 'absolute'. So you have to explicity specify the width or else it will take the width of the inner Div.

There is also something else. If you are trying to parse an xml using javascript in Firefox. I suggest you use "new XPathEvaluator()" to read the xml doc adn to read each noe you can use document.importNode(oNode,true).

Thanks hope this is of some help. I think this thread can be safely closed.
I hereby/thereby(confused!!!) declare this thread closed. HaHa
 
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