My site busts on AOL browser

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On Feb 11, 12:18 am, Geoff Fox wrote:
> the idea of posting to a blog is to be read.
> It is my obligation to be compatible, not theirs.

There is a problem also with the look of the cached page
from Google search results (I use Firefox).
I think it is a combination of XHTML errors, positioning,
and super-imposing/cascading of various style instructions.
For exmaple #content-inner has width 960px in one
stylesheet file and width 100% in another.
I still think the first step is to fix major XHTML errors.
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Geoff Fox wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 9:19 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-
> >sicur...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > > Geoff Fox wrote:
> > > > I am told it is still there (www.geofffox.com)... and, of
> > > > course, I can't see it!
> > > > My reader writes:
> > > > Hi Geoff..
> > > > It's weird. The grey panel is now off the "it is fixed" blog
> > > > post, but the grey panel has reappeared onto the Hockey and
> > > > the Earthquake postings and onto the bottom paragraph of the
> > > > Still Winter post. I use the AOL browser but I also have a
> > > > secondary browser (AT$T Yahoo) and when I look at it on there
> > > > it appears the same way. Laura
> > > > Any more ideas?
> > > What does AOL use to render pages? I always thaught it used the
> > > IE5 or 6 rendering engion.
> > > --
> > > Regards Chad.http://freewebdesignonline.org
> >
> > Hi Jerry -
> >
> > Yeah, we could have had jerry.com or geoff.com and made a fortune.
> > Who knew what we were missing?
> >
> > My first use of a networked computer (called timeshare then) was
> > 1967, playing Wumpus et al. I was in high school. It was at the
> > Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The output was printed on a
> > teletype which could punch and read tape.
> >
> > Chaddy - The graphic I posted of her screen looked to be 800x600. I
> > can only guess the age of the browser. Remember, people with 28.8
> > (or slower) connections don't want to spend time on long downloads.
> >
>
> Yea, it would have been great
>
> I wasn't on a timeshare back in '67 - the only thing I had access to
> was a mainframe (IBM 1401). Later I got on networked computers. And
> yes, I remember the old tty machines and paper tapes. Their
> mechanical rhythm could be mesmerizing. And you could do some
> interesting things with just a single bell
>
> Usenet was really nice back then without all the trolls and other
> idiots.

But then you came along, you dipshit
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Geoff Fox wrote:

> I just got the following screen cap from a blog reader:
> http://members.aol.com/jazz6462/dscf0001.jpg
>
> Originally, I had a problem with IE6 as well. I solved it by reducing
> the CSS width of the center column.

AOL just uses the rendering engine of whichever version of Internet
Explorer is installed (except on Mac, where I think it uses Gecko), so
your IE6 fix *should* solve the problem on AOL too.

But how long ago did you solve it for IE6? If in the last few days, then
it's possible that the AOL member is still seeing a cached version of your
old CSS file. (AOL cache almost the entire Intarweb on a handful of
massive proxy servers to reduce their bandwidth bill.) If this is indeed
the problem then it should fix itself in a few days, if it hasn't already.

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