Tom's Guide | Tom's Hardware | Tom's Games
 |
 |
 |
Name: Jude Walker
I've been using Firefox for about a week now (second time to try it), and I'm pretty satisfied with it so far. Two things are bugging me right now.
1. I downloaded an extension that was to enable me to place a shortcut to my Bookmarks onto my Desktop. After the download a box came up that said the extension would be installed when Firefox was restarted. I closed all Firefox applications and upon reopening, look for my extension or my shortcut. Where will I be finding that?
2. I have noticed that the page transition features in my website (a work still in progress) do not work in Firefox. The website is being built in FrontPage 2000, and I'm not sure what kind of code is used for the page transition. I could post it here, but then this might not be the proper forum for that.
tenacity, patience, and perseverance because…... I AM THE HUMAN
The pages are written in Microsoft specific DHTML code as far as I remember. Gecko based browsers use different commands to IE in JavaScript, and some are not even supported. These differences have always been a problem to web developers.
As far as the extension is concerned... have you read the relevant development page? They usually have information about that.
0 
Thanks Ben,
Are there any good open source web-building tools that are user friendly? (Can you say "asking too much?")
tenacity, patience, and perseverance because…... I AM THE HUMAN
0
Hi Jude,
For the shortcut, not a fix, but a way forward.
Find your bookmark file and right click - copy. Then on the desktop right click - paste shortcut.
For your web page, M$ apps put unnecessary code in to trip up non-M$ browsers.
A possible solution is the 'de-moronizer' which cuts out the bad code.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
I think it's by the guy who started AutoDesk.
Here's my FireFox prob.
I tried to tell it to use mplayer for a wax file. I think that's right. But In the dialog of open with / save to disk it says to go to download options.
In download options, it list zip and the ones already used. You can modify or remove but no obvious way to add a file type.
Any idea?
TIA HTH
M2
Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com
0
Jude,
What is the name of the extension you installed. Can you post the url of your website maybe we can help you, my son has made a couple of sites with front page that look real good in Firefox. I just made a Firefox site for beginners with the free program, and webspace that my isp offers. I know nothing about writing html but the site looks good in firefox and it was real easy. Maybe check with your isp and see if they have something simular. Check out my site to see if its something like you are trying to do.
0
M2,
Yeah, I got the shortcut on my desktop, but I was hoping that it would look the same as when you open Bookmarks from the toolbar in the browser i.e., just a list with icons. It doesn't really matter, it works just the same.
I will try your "de-moronizer" later when I get a chance.
I'm afraid I don't have a solution to your "mplayer" problem.
domass,
The extension I downloaded is deskCut 0.4.1 and can be found here:
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/authorprofiles.php?application=firefox&id=49
You can find all 164 available Mozilla extensions here:
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
There is a link to my (unfinished) website in the header of this message, or you can copy and paste http:/www.carmeliway.com into your address bar.
Your website looks great and believe me, I intend to utilize the information that I will find there. It will probably save me from clogging up this site with my questions.
As you can tell, I haven't learned enough about HTML yet to even be able to make hypoerlinks in this post. I've tried right clicking on other links to see if I could "view source" but the option is not available. I'm going to have to either learn more about it, or be stuck with FrontPage.
Right now I can't even update my website because I have somehow screwed up my index page so that now if I publish anything to the web, it's going to mess up what is already there. I just haven't really had time to straighten it out lately.
tenacity, patience, and perseverance because…... I AM THE HUMAN
0
domass, you've done a good job posting a lot of handy information! I like this site :-)
i_XpUser
0
Thanks everyone! Jude here is another website with probably a more updated list of extensions. Look at the bookmarkshome one and go to it's homepage an see if thats what you are kind of looking for. If you just want a shortcut on your desktop to your bookmarks you can make a shortcut by right clicking an open spot on your desktop and go to new shortcut then point it to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\your profile#\bookmarks.html this will make that shortcut update as you add bookmarks to it. If you want something fancier then the bookmarkshome extension might be good, if you don't want to make it your start page you could put a shortcut on the desktop to the file that is mentioned on the extension's page. One thing about the bookmarks.html, I've seen a couple of times where something happens to it and you loose your bookmarks. It's a good idea to back it up to a safe place every once in a while. But there's also a extension that does that for you if you like.
To make a hyperlink type
(a href="yoursite.com")text you see(/a)
for a different color text type
(a href="yoursite.com")(font color="blue")text you see(/a)(/font)
You just replace the () with<>, I had to do it that way otherwise it would turn into a link instead of text you could see.
I'm sorry I don't know what a wax file is and the media play doesn't have it in it's list of file types.
0
By the way Jude your site looks very nice only a few spacing differences between IE and FF view. Other than that it looks good, my son had to fiddle with his front page a few times to correct the spacing on one of his sites. Keep working with it I know you will get it perfect. You must have your screen resolution set higher than my 800x600 as your page is wider. I wish the browsers could compensate for that and shrink down the webpage. Ah it will give future developers something to shoot for.
0
domass,
Thanks for the info and also for the HTML tutorial? I don't think I want my bookmarks as my start page, so I'll just keep the shortcut like I have it. The other extensions will be interesting to check out though.
Thanks for the comments on my website. I did notice some spacing differences from IE. My screen resolution is set at 1280x1024. Should I tailor my website to something more middle-of-the-road?
This was my old website. Just wanted to see how that worked. I tried something similar before, but I think that instead of closing with (/font) I used (/color).
tenacity, patience, and perseverance because…... I AM THE HUMAN
0
Wow, I just put my resolution at 1280x1024 and wow everything is so small. You must have super good eyesite.LOL Seriously though I think I read somewhere that something like 70-80% of the people have their resolution at 800x600 as time goes on with monitors getting bigger and bigger people are putting their resolution higher. Like 4 or 5 years ago the average person would have theirs at 640x480. It's your website but if I were you I would make it when using something more middle of the road as you say. That's just my opinion though, it's your website you should build it how you like.
0
No, it's more important that people are able to view it comfortably. I have a 21-inch monitor which is why my resolution is set so high. I'm a residential designer and use AutoCAD in my work. With the toolbars and all, I need as large a viewing area as possible in order to see the actual drawing.
As soon as I get my index page straightened out I will fix that resolution.
Thanks a lot domass!
tenacity, patience, and perseverance because…... I AM THE HUMAN
0  |
 CD drives o not show up -...
|
Installshield etc/applog ...
|
This post is quite old and has been locked from receiving new replies. Please create a new posting instead.
| Ads by Google |
