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Compatability Web pages made with Cool Page will display properly in ALL properly configured web browsers, including AOL browsers. The HTML code made by the Cool Page program is 100% standard. When Publishing or Exporting, Cool Page will generate two HTML files. Each HTML page made contains a unique javascript that detects the viewer's browser and causes the proper page to be loaded. One of these HTML files will open in Netscape 4.x browsers and the other HTML file will open in all other browsers: |
HTML Standards And Web Browsers HTML standards are regulated by the World Wide Web Consortium. (W3C) At this time, NO web browser complies 100% with these proposed standards. For this reason, web developers have had to design their web sites for a particular brand of web browser, reluctantly eliminating a percentage of possible viewers, or they have had to design separate web sites for each browser audience. (double or triple work) Cool Page AUTOMATICALLY solves this design problem by generating HTML code that complies with W3C Standards and by creating web pages that will work in all browsers. |
Some Browser Facts • All web browsers use their own methods of rendering web pages. • Pages (made with any editor) do not display exactly alike in all browsers. • All text will appear slightly smaller in Netscape web browsers. • About 85% of all web surfers use Internet Explorer versions. • Netscape is used by approximately 10% of all web surfers. • Uncommon browsers: Opera, Mozilla, Specialized Browsers. • If the viewer's system does not have the font that is specified in the HTML code, the browser will decide which font to use. See the Fonts Guide |
Troubleshooting Web Browsers Internet Explorer Pages made with Cool Page will display properly in Internet Explorer web browsers. If a page does not display correctly then the usual causes are incorrect use of the HTML Object Tool, uncommon fonts or damaged browser. Learn the proper use of the HTML Object Tool and fonts. Internet Explorer comes with a very good help program. Open the browser and click the Help Menu Contents and Index or use Internet Explorer Online Help. AOL Browsers (and CompuServe) Pages made with Cool Page will display properly in AOL browsers. If a page does not display correctly then the usual causes are incorrect use of the HTML Object Tool, damaged AOL software, damaged Internet Explorer files, or uncommon fonts. Learn the proper use of the HTML Object Tool and fonts. If some images do not appear on the page in the AOL browser, then disable AOL graphics compression. "When the AOL caching system detects that an object is an image, it sends the image through a compression manager on the AOL system network... Beginning with Windows AOL 3.0, the AOL client does not have a browser embedded, but instead uses the Internet Explorer browser the user already has installed within their system... There are various incompatibilities which may arise in the way the specific AOL clients interact with the Browser which can result in unexpected behaviors of the browser itself." AOL Page AOL has used Internet Explorer as the foundation for it's browsers. When AOL software gets installed, it replaces some of the existing Internet Explorer files with it's own, sometimes causing the "unexpected behaviors" mentioned above. AOL now owns Netscape and the Netscape Gecko engine is used in AOL for Mac OS X, CompuServe 7, Netscape 6 and Netscape 7. AOL Help Netscape Browsers Pages made with Cool Page will display properly in all Netscape web browsers. If a page does not display correctly then the usual causes are incorrect use of the HTML Object Tool, uncommon fonts or damaged browser. Learn the proper use of the HTML Object Tool and fonts. Web page text will appear slightly smaller in Netscape web browsers no matter what program was used to make the page. . If you have a large audience of Netscape 4.x viewers, use only one HTML Object per page and set the Layer Number of the HTML Object to the largest allowed number by Cool Page. If the code used in this HTML Object is standard then the page will display correctly. Missing Netscape Plugins will prevent certain page content from being displayed. Online Netscape Support MAC Browsers Pages made with Cool Page will display properly in Mac web browsers. All of the major browsers come in versions for Mac computers. These Mac versions are alike in name only to their Windows counterparts, have different features and they display web pages differently than Windows browsers. Windows browsers and Mac browsers do have one thing in common, they all have known bugs and issues and none of them are 100% compliant with the W3C Standards. Here are some common Mac issues: • Incorrect use of the HTML Object Tool will cause problems on pages displayed in Mac browsers. • Mac and Windows users often have different fonts installed on their machines. Additionally, because of differing resolution standards, the same font size will often appear smaller on a Mac than it does on a PC. Fonts in Mac Browsers • Common issues with Internet Explorer for Mac at this Microsoft page. Occassionally, we receive questions from users about their web pages appearing differently in Mac browsers than in Windows browsers. As stated above, the Mac browsers are alike in name only to Windows browsers and fonts often differ between Mac and Windows operating systems. In the majority of cases it was found that the Mac user had his browser or system misconfigured, eg javascript disabled, resolution too low, etc. Cool Page Customer Support will refer all questions about pages displayed in Mac browsers to this section of CoolPageHelp. |
Web Browser PlugIns A Browser PlugIn is a separate software program that is installed and functions in coordination with a web browser, performing specialized tasks such as the playing of multimedia content on a web page, download managers, browser toolbar programs, etc. A web page with specialized content (such as multimedia) requires that a viewer has the appropriate plugin installed in order to see or hear the content. Some common browser plugins can be downloaded here: Windows Media Player Apple Quicktime Player Real Player Adobe Acrobat Reader IE 5 Web Accessories Shockwave Flash Player Sun Java PlugIn Netscape PlugIns |