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| bob3160:
I seem to have an incompatibility problem between the two browsers on the following website I set up for the Meadow Lake Residents Association When opened with IE or IE compatibility mode in FF, the items in the left column are all selectable links. If, however, I open this website using Firefox, only the last 2 items in the left column are selectable links. Flock appears to have the same problem as Firefox. I can however use Opera without any problems.... ??? ??? ??? Can any one figure this out? Thanks |
| polonus:
Hi bob3160, This has nothing to do with the browser used, but follows from the location from where you try to access this webcontent and the settings there, try to use a proxy like http://www.backfox.com or http://www.boxofprox.com/cgi.shtml and you see it is the local settings from googlepages that cause your predicament or try another than http://72.14.203.104/ All been OK here from Europe when I looked it up in Flock or IE7. greets, polonus |
| DavidR:
No problems from my end using firefox, dial-up, no proxy. No Script temporarily allowed for relevant scripts. |
| FreewheelinFrank:
Hi Bob, The page contains quite a few coding errors at the moment. This from the W3C Markup Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmlra.newmexico.googlepages.com%2Fhome This from Dreamweaver validation test: Validator Results Report date: March 11 2007 Report time: 09:07:12 Severity File Description Line Error Bob's page The tag: "meta" has an XML style closing syntax for an empty element even though version: "HTML20" is not an XML tag language. 6 Message Bob's page in tag: script the following required attributes are missing: type 544 Error Bob's page The tag:"div" is not allowed within: "h1" It is only allowed within: button, del, fieldset, iframe, ins, noframes, noscript, object, td, th. 553 Nesting Bob's page tag: " div" invalid inside tag: "p". " p" closing tag is optional. Validation will proceed as if context is closed. 555 Nesting Bob's page No starting tag found for: "p", or it was closed too many times 557 Error Bob's page The tag: "a" doesn't have an attribute: "imageanchor" in currently active versions. 564 Error Bob's page The tag: "img" doesn't have an attribute: "galleryimg" in currently active versions. 564 Error Bob's page The tag: "img" doesn't have an attribute: "km" in currently active versions. 564 Error Bob's page The tag: "a" doesn't have an attribute: "imageanchor" in currently active versions. 565 Message Bob's page In HTML 4.0, FONT is deprecated. It may become obsolete in future versions, consider using style sheets instead. 567 Error Bob's page The tag: "hr" has an XML style closing syntax for an empty element even though version: "HTML4" is not an XML tag language. 585 Nesting Bob's page tag: " div" invalid inside tag: "p". " p" closing tag is optional. Validation will proceed as if context is closed. 586 Nesting Bob's page No starting tag found for: "p", or it was closed too many times 588 Error/Warning Type Count Total errors: 7 Total warnings: 0 Total nesting errors: 4 Total messages: 2 Using Dreaweaver revealed a <span> object in front of the unclickable links. Removing this made the links clickable in Firefox: http://geocities.com/dontsurfinthenude/bobspage.htm IE and Opera were probably being unduly flattering to the page; Firefox rendered it more honestly, including the errors. If the page is tidied up, it will work fine in any browser: there's no need to ask your viewers to use IE. EDIT: Tidy Online also reveals some problems with the page: Errors and Warnings line 544 column 3 - Warning: <script> lacks "type" attribute line 553 column 31 - Warning: <div> isn't allowed in <h1> elements line 553 column 49 - Warning: missing </h1> before <p> line 553 column 127 - Warning: discarding unexpected </h1> line 554 column 36 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 555 column 34 - Warning: trimming empty <p> line 555 column 61 - Warning: trimming empty <p> line 557 column 81 - Warning: replacing element </p> by <br> line 557 column 81 - Warning: inserting implicit <br> line 558 column 36 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 564 column 276 - Warning: unknown attribute "km" line 564 column 276 - Warning: unknown attribute "galleryimg" line 564 column 276 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 565 column 63 - Warning: trimming empty <p> line 565 column 333 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute line 569 column 36 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 579 column 38 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 587 column 12 - Warning: trimming empty <p> line 587 column 34 - Warning: trimming empty <p> line 589 column 114 - Warning: replacing element </p> by <br> line 589 column 114 - Warning: inserting implicit <br> line 590 column 34 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 594 column 3 - Warning: discarding unexpected </div> line 597 column 27 - Warning: trimming empty <span> line 597 column 66 - Warning: trimming empty <span> line 598 column 27 - Warning: trimming empty <span> line 598 column 66 - Warning: trimming empty <span> line 600 column 27 - Warning: trimming empty <span> line 600 column 66 - Warning: trimming empty <span> 29 warnings/errors were found! The alt attribute should be used to give a short description of an image; longer descriptions should be given with the longdesc attribute which takes a URL linked to the description. These measures are needed for people using non-graphical browsers. You are recommended to use CSS to specify the font and properties such as its size and color. This will reduce the size of HTML files and make them easier maintain compared with using <FONT> elements. http://valet.htmlhelp.com/tidy/ |
| bob3160:
Thank you all. Especially Frank for all the effort you put into this. It's obvious from going to the page you created (except for the missing picture link) that the errors are on my end. Unfortunately I don't have the skill or knowledge to make the corrections. The page was built with the Google Page builder and someplace during all the edits that I've made, something got screwed up. It may not be right, but at least it's still there. If I attempt to make any of the suggested changes, (I don't really have a clue how) I may no longer have a website..... :'( :'( Guess for now, It will just have to stay the way it is. Again, thanks for the help. :) |
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