Firefox and portal rendering

[AndyBannister]

I've come across a problem with Instant Web Publishing and Firefox and I wondered if I was alone. I'm building our university intranet discussion board in Filemaker and it works nicely in Safari and in IE on the PC. But Firefox, on both PC or Mac, completely mucks up the rendering of text in a portal row that has formatting applied using e.g. the TextColor command in a calculated field. I'm guessing the rendering engine in Firefox is to blame, but has anybody else encountered anything like this screenshot ...

... see the three lines where the characters have all been scrambled up on top of each other. ( And apologies for the bizarre post titles in that screenshot!)

Thanks for any advice.

Andy

[brian rich]

IWP on FMP7 Server Advanced does not work correctly with Filefox. You should see a message at the bottom of the IWP home page to this effect when you try accessing IWP using Firefox. Very annoying, but this is a known limitation of IWP. I don't think this problem goes away with FMP8 Server.

You may also find printing IWP pages a problem whichever browser you use.

Brian Rich

ruralnet|uk

www.ruralnet.org.uk

[Søren Dyhr]

According to the documentation should Firefox up to ver. 1.0 be OK provided the fm server is a regular fm8 but if it covers fm8sa ...dunno.

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/documentation/fm8_instant_web_publishing.pdf

No I'm in the backbone of the IWP approach, but I know we gain some compatibility by avoiding ushiering in jpeg's from containerfields to colour stuff and instead uses the webding font in sizes as big as 160 point to make backgrounds in portal rows, if they should be dynamic, similar should your arrows utilize unicode "ding'ies" instead of putting up png-ditos.

Finally do I know that the design dept. avoid any borders covering each other. Try to tinker a little here!

--sd

[brian rich]

Firefox 2.0 seems to work correctly with IWP, although so far I have only done limited testing on the IWP databases we have in production.

Also, Firefox 2 does seem to be able to print framed pages - so far

Brian Rich

ruralnet|uk