Posted by Al Ingham

One of the most common, and the most annoying problems for any web designer is configuring their site to display correctly in all browsers. And this happens to be one of the most important things for the designer to do. For what is the point of designing a site to display one thing in one browser, and something else in another.
But in essence, this could be one of the easiest fixes in the world. Instead of making designers spend hours testing for all browsers – in particular Mozilla Firefox (essentially Netscape) and Microsoft Internet Explorer, it would be better to share the technology, or at least make their browsers the same compatibility so that all sites will automatically show up in the same way.
Of course, this will never happen. Companies will always compete to get the better product, and the technology will continue to develop independently of each other and so the circle of designing and redesigning for each and every browser will continue.
One light upon the horizon is that Internet Exploer 7 seems to display sites the same way as Mozilla Firefox, so that should eventually make things a lot easeir for designers, once everyone shifts over to the new IE7.
‘Till next time…