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HTML Problems

Not here, as far as I know, but I've noticed over the last few weeks that some blogs are coming up totally FUBAR in Mozilla (Firebird .7), though they appear OK in Explorer. I'm not sure, but I think they're all blogspot sites. Here's an example (one that's a regular read for me).

I don't have the time or the inclination to dig through the source to figure out what the problem is, but if anyone else is interested, they might want to tell the site owners, so that they'll be more accessible to the rest of the non-Microsoft universe. The problem seems to start right after the words "Advertise on the world's biggest nanoblog!" which makes me suspect that there's a blogads problem.

[Update on Wednesday morning]

I just checked Nanobot again, and it's OK this morning.

<shrug>

Posted by Rand Simberg at April 20, 2004 11:08 PM
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It's not the ad itself, but rather the URL link. Things go weird in the script portion of the link, and the HTML source is just as screwy as the displayed text. Weird!

I can only assume that the script is doing a document.write (or equivalent) in some way that breaks Mozilla...

Posted by Dominic at April 21, 2004 02:35 AM

Yet more evidence of the Microsoft plot.

Posted by dex at April 21, 2004 02:57 AM

Even morre strange, since I use Mozilla or Safari every chance I get, rather than Internet Explorer. The problem isn't showing up on my screens on my Mac at home or PC at work. What's the trouble? I'm working with Blogger on a beta for a new system. I'll pass the problem on to them, too. Thanks.

Howard

Posted by Howard Lovy at April 21, 2004 03:40 AM

I've seen it here, too (Howard's site, as well), only on some, but not all, Blogspot sites.

Don't the ads rotate? If so, maybe the culprit is a particular kind of ad.

Posted by billg at April 21, 2004 03:52 AM

Mozilla is standards compliant http://thewonderllama.com/browsers.shtml

IE Ain't. Nuff said.

Posted by dave at April 21, 2004 10:40 AM

Dave's right, sort of. My blog started appearing weird in standards-compliant browsers, but I fixed it by taking out the tag in my index template that identified a standard to comply with.

What this means is that "standards-compliant" browsers actually expect HTML code to comply with standards if the code says it will comply. If the code says "Standards? We don' need no steenkeeng standards!" Mozilla, et al, kick up no fuss whatsoever.

Posted by McGehee at April 21, 2004 01:31 PM

BTW, Rand, the IMG SRC link for your Blogspot indicator has been broken since you moved the Musings. Or so it has seemed to me.

Posted by McGehee at April 21, 2004 01:36 PM

Yeah, I just need to take the blogspotwatch down, because I don't think it works any more, or has much utility since Google bought Pyra.

Posted by Rand Simberg at April 21, 2004 01:53 PM


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