The FP server extensions are for development purposes and back-end processes built into FP design techniques. Any browser should work when making the request and being served content, unless you have something browser-specific programmed into your output. When you say it isn't displaying correctly, that likely means a styling issue, and IE is often the one that does not render markup correctly. Can you offer a bit more information on your issue?

All my sites are written on FP 2002 and work well in both IE6 & FF 2.0.

Also have a look at he FP forum at [webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: Tropical_Island at 10:17 pm (utc) on Nov. 20, 2006]

Specifically, it is the picture gallery feature. On IE it works fine, there are 5 small pics at the top, and they scroll. but in FF2.0, they just appear as one giant list trailing off to the left, no scrolling. Although it does display the picture if the correct slide is selected.

I will check out the other forum also....

Perhaps it is a better question, How do you implement FP on the main website? (perhaps i did it wrong) What should i expect to see, how can i test it?

Maybe i should drop it altogether, is there a "simple" way to do this in Perl?

If both pages are rendering in the browser then your code is being parsed and served just fine (view the source in both to see if the exact same source is being provided to both browsers, and additionally I would check the headers received by both browsers to ensure they are the same).

If the browsers are being served the same exact document and rendering the visual display differently then your style is likely the issue.

the content seems to be identical. there are some empty lines that are different, but all the characters and data are all the same. I used windiff to check.

Specifically, it is the picture gallery feature. On IE it works fine, there are 5 small pics at the top, and they scroll. but in FF2.0, they just appear as one giant list trailing off to the left, no scrolling.

There's a good chance that the picture gallery is not going to function in FF as it does in IE. If I'm not mistaken, that is IE proprietary code that controls it. Unfortunately it won't work in anything other than IE.

Is that the Marquee element you are using?

not sure it is a "marquee" per say, FP calls it a slide show. the top scrolls, but not automatically, have to click the arrow to make it scroll, kinda like this

< 1 2 3 4 5 >
PIC HERE

FF just shows
1 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ect....
PIC HERE

I just set up a slide show and can confirm what you are describing. What you are seeing is an FP proprietary script that doesn't work in Mozilla based browsers. This is one of those WYSIWYG features that the program can do without. ;)

I'd suggest finding a slideshow script at one of the popular JavaScript websites. There are a bunch of them out there, some of them rather nifty. And, they work across browsers. ;)

I have never written Java, and my Perl is also weak. Is this something that I can cut and paste?

Does the Main site have to have Java installed or something like that?

Make sure you are clear that you want javascript - java is a different technology. Yes, these public scripts are pretty much copy/paste and they usually come with instructions as well. Just do a search for javascript slideshow and check out the examples - there are MANY available.

:( I found many Java scripts that have slide shows, but none with the scroll bar of thumbnails :(

Also, it looks like if i go java, there is going to be a lot of coding, contrary to a 'shift-click' to add all the photos (hundreds)

does anyone know of a more friendly java script maybe, that has the scroll bar of thumbnails?

Maybe i should just warn my users that it will have to be run in IE :(

I still think you might be confusing Java and JavaScript. As tedster mentioned, they're quite different.

If you want a full fledged photo gallery you're going to have to do some fiddling with the code. It just depends on how complicated a system you want. If you want a simple upload system then the back end becomes more complicated. Take a look at the Gallery system if you want something like that.

Use dreamweaver.It's fast and has a friendly interface, too