Rotary Engine wrote:
BTW Francois your web site does not completely work with
the popular Firefox web browser. Perhaps because
your web site guy is using a Microsoft product to
do the web site :)
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
Do we have any html experts on here? If so please capture
the source and have a look.
About here is as far as I can get.
<![if !vml]></td>
</tr>
</table>
</span><![endif]>
Barf!
The website designer is using MS-Word and/or MS-FrontPage to compose the
site, and those tools are emitting Microsoft's "MHTML" format. It's
allegedly W3C compliant, but it's a bitch kitty for "normal" HTML people
to comprehend.
Paul,
Precisely which part isn't working for you? My FireFox 1.5.0.4 on
Windows XP SP2 appears to understand it.
Russell
I am using version 1 and that appears to be the problem.
Morning, Paul...
Interesting...I, too, am using Firefox v 1.05.04 and have found no
problems loading or viewing any of the pages or graphics on the Mistral
web site. But, when I check the JavaScript Console (didn't even know it
was there until you mentioned it! <G>), I get the same errors you do,
even though I don't see anything wrong when browsing. The difference
may be that I'm still using Windows as an OS, and you are using Linux
(see below-).
In any case, checking around, I found other webmasters who have reported
the same general list of errors. A Firefox user offers this solution to
make it more compatible with more browsers and OSs. It apparently
doesn't always work for everyone, but it's a start.
A Google search, using the terms of the JavaScript Console report, might
help him solve the problem.
Harley
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Regarding the errors that Firefox gave you
Those are all just stylesheet errors for things that IE supports, but
Firefox doesn't.
Try adding the following to your web.config's system.web section:
<browserCaps>
TagWriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
</browserCaps>
By default, .NET treats Firefox as an "old" downlevel browser and emits
old HTML syntax. For example, you get tables rather than divs, if you
use a .NET Panel control. When you add the above, .NET always emits HTML
code appropriate to modern, "uplevel" browsers.
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An Internet html standard should be set that never changes. The idea
of changing a standard to force people to spend money for new
software originated with Microsoft. Way back when we had DOS we
needed improvements. We needed a 32 bit DOS. Improvements could
have been made with out busting existing programs. Instead
Apple came out with an undocumented GUI busting all their
old software and that one could not bypass to the core of the
undocumented OS. You can thank Steve Jobs for that idea.
To be completely fair IBM was doing it long before that
on their mainframes.
Microsoft copied Apple and ran with the nasty idea. This allowed
Microsoft to change the GUI application interface at any time to
destroy competitors of MS's own application software any time MS
felt like it and MS did it with regulararity. XTree Gold,
one of my favorite file managers, was destroyed
and some of the features were copied by Microsoft
and used in Windows Explorer.
Netscape, the father and mother of Firefox and Thunderbird,
was one of the those programs destroyed by Microsoft.
Microsoft is still at it with mhtml.
Just last week the European Union fined Microsoft again about
400 million dollars for nasty tricks. The first fine was about
700 million as I call. Of course that is a drop in the bucket
for Bill Gates as he is now worth sixty thousand million dollars
made through his dirty tricks. If allowed to continue there is
no end to his power. Soon he will be able to buy both
Canada and Australia :) The legal solution is to not allow
copyrights on OS software and allow people to legally disassemble
OS software to document it. It is now illegal to do that I think.
The EU are trying to force Microsoft to publicly document their own
OS and GUI software which will also work.
Ironically those types of integrated GUI's were completely unnecessary.
If one wanted a GUI one should be able to buy a documented
competitive GUI that one likes and have it run on the top of the
basic documented OS. That is exactly what we have in documented
Linux and ironically Apple now runs Linux as its core OS.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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