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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1677861" data-attributes="member: 87">Using IE 5.0 I take it.  How do I know? Cause the boards only shoot that particular bit of cold to IE 5.0 or earlier (If you are using i.e. 6 and you're seeing that page then there's a logic error I'm not aware of or the news page isn't using the $spacer_open template correctly).Herein lies part of my problem. Vbulletin is configured to shoot out different versions of the page depending on the browser.  I test using IE 6, and NS 6, and I'm seriously considering adding Firebird to that list because of the growing number of users out there who make use of it.Now, in a perfect world all the browser manufacturers would follow these standards you allude to and neither I nor the makers of vbulletin wouldn have to tweak the code to make sure that it displays reasonably well on all major platforms. (No, I don't intend to make sure the boards display correctly on Netscape 2.0) And, BTW, you have *no right* to complain about the pages you get not following W3C standards while still using a browser that wouldn't know what to do with a page that follows those standards.Also bear in mind that the people who submit and write the news on the front page aren't necessarily web gurus or coders.  They are dedicated volunteers who provide and edit material which the system then applies most of the formatting to.  And that formatting can change depending on the client browser, up to a point.At the moment I have enough headaches to deal with than to tinker with the code of a section of the site that has been running perfectly well for 5 months with no complaints.  In time I may address your complaints though it could easily take a day or two to do. The formatting suggestions you imply aren't a simple matter of altering a CSS style sheet or two - I'd have to dig through the templates to find the ones involved with the problem. Each edit has to be checked against two different browsers and 6 style sheets.That's a heck of a lot of work, especially when you compare it to the simplest solution - maximize you browser window.</blockquote>

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