Does FrontPage cause browser display problems?
Unfortunately, the answer is often “yes.” FrontPage tends to create Web pages that work well under the latest version of Internet Explorer, but not as well under Netscape or other browsers. Specifically, FrontPage will often use Microsoft “extensions” to the HTML language. Extensions are tags and attributes that aren’t an official part of the HTML language, and are only supported by a specific browser. A good example of this is FrontPage’s use of attributes to set the margins of your Web page, a feature that works only when that page is viewed with Internet Explorer. In addition, Internet Explorer often leads the field in its support for the latest official additions to HTML, and FrontPage follows suit by creating Web pages that use these cutting-edge features. If visitors to your site use an older browser that doesn’t understand these new aspects of HTML, your page may not display the way you wanted it to. FrontPage can be configured to create HTML that is more compatible with other b
