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<blockquote data-quote="DenAtTheDBM" data-source="post: 1151829" data-attributes="member: 180726"><p>I <em>wish</em> that were true, unfortunately I've found that Firefox 3.6 for Linux != Firefox 3.6 for Windows != Firefox 3.6 for Mac. </p><p></p><p>For example, my employer has a site for employees to login and see their schedules and such, but it was created using Microsoft Silverlight. It only works in Windows. Even with the Silverlight plugin for Mac, the page starts to load but then just shows a blank white page where there should be a login dialog. Loads perfectly in all browsers in Windows, but not Linux or Mac.</p><p></p><p>Another example, I created a php script for my own site <a href="http://www.theDBM.ca" target="_blank">(www.theDBM.ca)</a> that dynamically creates a gallery of thumbnails from images in a directory. When you click on a thumbnail, another php script displays the image and a brief description. That display page was intended to have a black background. Seemed to work fine when I created and tested it in Linux, but when I viewed it in Windows 7, the page had a default white background. Turns out the php scripts should have had proper html tags but were php only (my bad). It looked correct in Linux, but not in Windows - until I added the basic html tags. Now it looks the same in all platforms.</p><p></p><p>Moral of the story, if you don't do things absolutely "correct" then it seems the browser versions for different platforms do have different ways of handling "issues". But if you do everything right, they <em>should</em> all display the same thing (pretty close, anyway).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DenAtTheDBM, post: 1151829, member: 180726"] I [I]wish[/I] that were true, unfortunately I've found that Firefox 3.6 for Linux != Firefox 3.6 for Windows != Firefox 3.6 for Mac. For example, my employer has a site for employees to login and see their schedules and such, but it was created using Microsoft Silverlight. It only works in Windows. Even with the Silverlight plugin for Mac, the page starts to load but then just shows a blank white page where there should be a login dialog. Loads perfectly in all browsers in Windows, but not Linux or Mac. Another example, I created a php script for my own site [URL="http://www.theDBM.ca"](www.theDBM.ca)[/URL] that dynamically creates a gallery of thumbnails from images in a directory. When you click on a thumbnail, another php script displays the image and a brief description. That display page was intended to have a black background. Seemed to work fine when I created and tested it in Linux, but when I viewed it in Windows 7, the page had a default white background. Turns out the php scripts should have had proper html tags but were php only (my bad). It looked correct in Linux, but not in Windows - until I added the basic html tags. Now it looks the same in all platforms. Moral of the story, if you don't do things absolutely "correct" then it seems the browser versions for different platforms do have different ways of handling "issues". But if you do everything right, they [I]should[/I] all display the same thing (pretty close, anyway). [/QUOTE]
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