I have been trying to get dotvoid.com look the same would you prefer Internet Explorer or, as me, Mozilla. I have disregarded Opera even though the few times I’ve tested it, it seemed to be a good enough browser. I just assume Opera has no problems as I try my hardest to stick to the standards. There are a few things bugging me that I still need to sort out though.

First and foremost I am actually very annoyed at the embeddable HTML editing widget in Mozilla. Supporting the same kind of embeddable wysiwyg editor in Mozilla as existing in IE was a great decision. Annoyingly the mozilla team made the editor insert a <BR> instead of a new paragraph when hitting enter. This makes it very hard for me to create a completely xhtml 1.1 compliant site using my own Firesite CMS. Sigh.

Dotvoid.com design

The menus I have created on the left side of the pages are supposed to look like tabs, which they also do in Mozilla. This effect is easily achieved using CSS and a negative right margin for the menu item which overlays the border of the page content. I don’t explain so good so just look at the above image and you’ll see what I mean. In Internet Explorer I get a thin border between the (active) start menu item and the content. I am sure I’m going about it wrong but I just can’t seem to figure it out.