Dreamweaver MX2004 and Frames...

I've been using MX2004 at an agency I freelance at and have noticed some kind of glitch, perhaps.

A frame set as no resize and auto or default scroll will preview fine with one vertical scroll bar on a mac in all major browsers, but when viewed on a PC on all OS versions there is also a horizontal scroll bar for no reason as all the content is obviously within a table well within the width of the correct size.

Resorted back to MX (version 6.1) and everything is fine no horizontal scroll bar!
There is nothing worse than a useless scrollbar on a site using frames it looks disgusting.

I've checked the code and everything seems to be the same in both versions, althougth I am a WYSIWYG builder and have average hand coding skills.

Just wondered if anyone had come across the same problem, I know that sites should be built on dare I say it a PC but I'm not changing after 8 years on macs.

Cheers Christian.

 

Preview (F12) on mac is fine it's a case of finish it on a mac upload to relevant server then walk across the studio to check it live on the PC and find another scroll bar.

I never design anything that will use a horizontal scroll bar - user testing and feedback and all that all says no.

If I edit the frame properties on a pc to make it work i.e scrollbars set at auto or yes and re upload, the result is no scrollbars on my mac???

Fireworks 2004 html docs are not recognised by Dreamweaver MX 6.1 which is a nightmare as I'll have to revert back to version 6 of that as well.

Had loads of probs with DW MX2004 it'd boot up and decide not to show any menus, the keyboard shortcuts don't work and in Flash MX2004 as well and I use that every other day.

 

...The sites that where displaying the problem have been fixed and I've uninstalled MX2004 this afternoon.

I'll re-install and create a sample frame-set as soon as possible.

Cheers.

 

OK two simple frame sets, one done in MX 6.1 and the other in MX2004.

Checked both in IE, Netscape, Safari and Opera (all latest versions) on this Mac running 10.3.2, all fine.

Check both on my PC running ME, and the MX2004 site has a horizontal scroller, the other has not.

MX 6.1

MX2004

Cheers

 

Cheers for taking the time to have a look, my bad on that though I doubt it makes any difference as there's no horizontal scroller on a mac but there is on a PC.

Anyway I've amended both sets to be 700 wide and embedded the copy into a table 650 wide. As we know no scroll bar is that wide but there's still a horizontal scroll bar on a PC not on a Mac.

MX 6.1

MX2004