Browser Compatibility and frontpage

[Digital_Boy]

I'm going from doing mostly stuff for myself, to doing some business sites.
As a result, I'm a little more concerned about backwards compatibility than I
have been in the past. Even though I've been using frontpage for a while,
I've never really used the "browser compatibility" check before, and therein
lies the questions:

1. Does the feature work well as a general rule? Is it reliable? If I set
it for 5.0 and up netscape and IE browsers, will it accurately reflect the
situation?

2. More specifically, I just created a site totally in css (no tables, no
font tags, nothing really in the html files but p tags and div tags, along
with a couple of uls). I checked the site with frontpage's browser
compatibility set to 4.0 and up netscape/IE and got no errors reported. I
had all the pages opened in fp, including the stylesheet, and used the "check
open pages" option. My concern is that even if the pages are fine (they
ought to be, there's nothing in them hardly), that problems created by styles
I've used in my stylesheet WON'T be detected by the browser compatibility
check. Is that true? Does the check somehow factor in the stylesheet?

3. Finally, I think you can find the older browsers around and download
them, but I assume you have to partition your hard drive to run more than one
version of IE on the same computer. Is that true? Is there another way to
actually see the way a page renders in an older browser?

Thanks a ton for any help. Really sorry for the long post.
DB

 

[Digital_Boy]

edit: I have fp2003

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Validate your Html and CSS if you are concerned
- try the single page validator at
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/

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| I'm going from doing mostly stuff for myself, to doing some business sites.
| As a result, I'm a little more concerned about backwards compatibility than I
| have been in the past. Even though I've been using frontpage for a while,
| I've never really used the "browser compatibility" check before, and therein
| lies the questions:
|
| 1. Does the feature work well as a general rule? Is it reliable? If I set
| it for 5.0 and up netscape and IE browsers, will it accurately reflect the
| situation?
|
| 2. More specifically, I just created a site totally in css (no tables, no
| font tags, nothing really in the html files but p tags and div tags, along
| with a couple of uls). I checked the site with frontpage's browser
| compatibility set to 4.0 and up netscape/IE and got no errors reported. I
| had all the pages opened in fp, including the stylesheet, and used the "check
| open pages" option. My concern is that even if the pages are fine (they
| ought to be, there's nothing in them hardly), that problems created by styles
| I've used in my stylesheet WON'T be detected by the browser compatibility
| check. Is that true? Does the check somehow factor in the stylesheet?
|
| 3. Finally, I think you can find the older browsers around and download
| them, but I assume you have to partition your hard drive to run more than one
| version of IE on the same computer. Is that true? Is there another way to
| actually see the way a page renders in an older browser?
|
| Thanks a ton for any help. Really sorry for the long post.
| DB