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[Alvy]

I need help deguging where my template is failing in Older Netscape 4.x browsers.
The calendar is stretched very badly. Unreadable.
When I view the calendar here on the CalendarScript site, it looks fine in Net 4.x. But mine is the default template, basically, but it stretches way too far.

Anyone have same trouble or have a moment to veiw my source and see what is up?
Thanks very much

the URL is http://www.theorangepeel.net/cgi-bin/opcal/calendar.pl

Alvy

[DanO]

Sorry but I don't see the problem. If you didn't have your robots.txt file excluding robots from spidering it, I would have seen what NetMechanic had to say about its page code.

Dan O.

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[Alvy]

The problem is when viewed in Netcape 4.x browsers, the table gets stretched two or three screens wide. It renders fine in the current browsers, both mozilla and IE.

I recently took over the site when I started using the calendar script, I haven't looked at the robot.txt from that perspective yet. I believe the previous webmaster wanted to keep spiders out of the cgi-bin for other reasons. He used to hand code the calendar.

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I just ran it through the NetMechanic demo.. It wasn't much help, mostly it wanted to optimize my images. (which is good advise, I was just hoping it would help with my tables)

[This message has been edited by Alvy (edited September 04, 2003).]

[Alvy]

IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR... I keep comparing the html output of the calendar on this site with the one on my site. They should be roughly the same as I am using the same default template. But the only diff is that mine was in a nested table. I thought this would not make a difference.
it was
<table width="100%">
  <tr><td>
**my header**
  </td></tr>
  <tr><td>
      <table width="100%><tr><td>
         **calendarscript**</td></tr>
      </table>
  </td></tr>
</table>

But in the Netscape 4.8, the calendar was stretched way past the screen.
I un-nested the tables and viola! it works..

What I don't understand is why it didn't like the nested table. I mean the script generates  nested tables itself?!?!?

Thanks for your help Dan-O ....

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[This message has been edited by Alvy (edited September 04, 2003).]

[DanO]

** But in the Netscape 4.8, the calendar was stretched way past the screen. ... What I don't understand is why it didn't like the nested table. **

Netscape 4+ was an extremely buggy product, I'm not surprised it doesn't display all pages properly. However, it also displayed too wide in the NS 3.0 browser so just the browser version being used is not likely the problem.

Netscape browsers are however *very* finicky about HTML coding where as in IE you can get away with a lot. I might look for a missing <TR>, <TD>, </TR>, </TD> tag(s) as that might cause display inconsistency in NS browsers.

Dan O.

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