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Posted by rockytopnotary on Fri, 10/28/2005 - 15:43For the Record

I recently built a website using GoDaddy.com Website tonight.  I could only build it using Microsoft IE because Firefox was not compatible.  Once I built and published it, I looked at it from MS IE and it was fine, however, when I used my DEFAULT Explorer which is FireFox, the entire website looked all messed up.

 

I quickly contacted GoDaddy and this is there response to me: 

"This is happening because FireFore does not recognize the "Background-Repeat" style element.  This is a limitation of FireFox when rendering Cascading Style Sheets and is not something that we have the ability to correct"

In other words, I guess FireFox subscribers will see my website in a very messed up format.  What can be done to correct this?

My website is:  www.rockytopnotary.com

 I would appreciate any assistance in getting this corrected.

 Thank you,

~Sammi~



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Maybe its a problem with your site?
Submitted by andy101 on Sat, 10/29/2005 - 22:28.

The mighty W3 validator couldn't even validate the site, instead it displayed this:

 
Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line
270
it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as
utf-8
(in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified
Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the
character encoding indication.

The WDG validator said:

The maximum number of errors was reached. Further errors in the document have not been reported.

Webthing found 113 errors

This is just the HTML on the main page. This doesn't include CSS (style).


CSS on main page passed validation, however on page2 (services) it generate a long list of errors


You can not blame Firefox for the apalling level of HTML and CSS present. Your page is in such an amazingly poor state that the W3's validator couldn't even attempt a validation and the WDG's validator found so many errors that it gave up part way through. How can you expect a browser to display such an abuse of HTML and CSS standards?


All the tools a used to check your page are free, and you can even download an extension to Firefox that allows a simple right-click on a page to access many common webpage validators (including HTML, CSS, RDF/RSS, Link Checker)

If this page is generated by a tool on godaddy I suggest you contact them and ask them why it created such poor quality HTML. Some of the HTML rules are picky but automated tools can easily handle adding the same thing again and again so there is no excuse.

Do not blame firefox for not displaying your page correctly. It is your page that is at fault. Once you have your page adhereing to the rules it should then check how its displayed.

As for background repeat, using view source in firefox shows the only use o background repeat as an inline style is specified as no-repeat whih means Firefox should draw the image once, which is what it appears to be doing.

If you still think this is a bug in firefox (or Gecko), then get the page valid, reduce it as much as possible and submit it to bugzilla (with testcase).

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Firefox is a joke
Submitted by oevind on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 20:31.

Your post is all very well but why don't you tell him that background-repeat is broken in Firefox?

"Webthing found 113 errors"
That is nothing agains all errors you encounter in Mozilla/Firefox as soon as you try to do some elementary web 2.0 codings.

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You should try...
Submitted by PCCRomeo on Fri, 10/28/2005 - 22:09.

I think for your site CuteSITE Builder would be a great tool.  It's easy to use and a lot cheaper than FrontPage or Dreamweaver...

You can download a free trial from their website.

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Dreamweaver
Submitted by Stoned4Life on Sat, 10/29/2005 - 04:34.

If you want to take the time on some templates though, downloading the free trial to dreamweaver will give you a chance to use a couple before it expires. 

gen = new Random

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I feel like website tonight...
Submitted by dawesi on Fri, 10/28/2005 - 21:10.

You're using website tonight, then you wonder why your website doesn't work cross-browser.... barhumbug.... nube... get the trial of Dreamweaver 8 and use the templates.

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Hi Sammi
Submitted by Ken Saunders on Fri, 10/28/2005 - 16:03.

You may get a better response to your problem if you try the following link. Good luck.
Firefox Help

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