Weird rendering of website!
Hi Folks, Still following up one of my current side-interests, I visited the website http://www.denvermill.co.uk using Iceweasel on Debian Etch. Hopeless rendering of text (massive vertical expansion), much of the page simply missing, and hardly any of the links apparently active and none of them working. On the other hand, if I view it in Windows Internet Explorer then it all seems to work perfectly. What might be the explanation for this difference? Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Jan-10 Time: 13:28:07 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
using Iceweasel on Debian Etch. Hopeless rendering of text (massive vertical expansion), much of the page simply missing, and hardly any of the links apparently active and none of them working.
On the other hand, if I view it in Windows Internet Explorer then it all seems to work perfectly.
What might be the explanation for this difference?
My standard response to this sort of question is "any one of the 412 HTML errors found on that page" - http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denvermill.co.u... Some errors are unavoidable (e.g. the autocomplete="off" tag on text entry fields, which whilst a defacto standard isn't yet in a DTD). However, 412 errors suggests to me that there is far more wrong there than little things like that. Greg
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:28:11PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks, Still following up one of my current side-interests, I visited the website
using Iceweasel on Debian Etch. Hopeless rendering of text (massive vertical expansion), much of the page simply missing, and hardly any of the links apparently active and none of them working.
On the other hand, if I view it in Windows Internet Explorer then it all seems to work perfectly.
What might be the explanation for this difference?
Looking at the source:- <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> This, plus a total lack of testing, would explain a lot! :-) Not to mention how does a fairly simple page require such a *huge* amount of junk to generate it? -- Chris Green
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:28:11PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks, Still following up one of my current side-interests, I visited the website
using Iceweasel on Debian Etch. Hopeless rendering of text (massive vertical expansion), much of the page simply missing, and hardly any of the links apparently active and none of them working.
Im experiencing similar problems on Leopard with Chrome but the enlarged text for me is pictures of text out of scale, as others have mentioned this site is a shameful thing to the developer of! -- Regards, James ;) Joan Crawford - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html
Sorry - senior moment again. I think I sent these two replies to origin,,, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks, Still following up one of my current side-interests, I visited the website
using Iceweasel on Debian Etch. Hopeless rendering of text (massive vertical expansion), much of the page simply missing, and hardly any of the links apparently active and none of them working.
On the other hand, if I view it in Windows Internet Explorer then it all seems to work perfectly.
What might be the explanation for this difference?
Best wishes, Ted.
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