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Mozilla Rendering prob.
Calum:
well, i've had a cackload of problems with mozilla 1, i had to TRY to download it 4 times, then i had to install it twice (this is on MacOS9.1) and i still prefer opera 5, because mozilla crashes due to type 2 errors (memory) and the rendering as you say is a little random. It does its job better than some so called finished browsers though. I got mozilla 1 on the day it came out and they warned me that it would be full of bugs. That is what i expect from a test version!
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
well, i've had a cackload of problems with mozilla 1, i had to TRY to download it 4 times, then i had to install it twice (this is on MacOS9.1) and i still prefer opera 5, because mozilla crashes due to type 2 errors (memory) and the rendering as you say is a little random. It does its job better than some so called finished browsers though. I got mozilla 1 on the day it came out and they warned me that it would be full of bugs. That is what i expect from a test version!
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i figure, that i am helping them work out the few bugs that are in 1.0 by reporting them and figuring out what exactly is wrong.
Calum:
that's the idea! :D well re: html checking, here are the few links i dragged out from my brain...
here's the link for HTML VALIDATOR, it has a few useful looking things under the Tools menu. It runs in windows though.
here's the w3c page that allows you to submit a url, then they go and check out if the html is okay, and tell you about it. This is only any use if the page is already up on a server though.
here andhere are the links for the WDG HTML Validator for linux. haven't used it, not a clue how it goes. If it's good, let's hear about it though...
Last but not least here's the result of a search on Tucows about HTML validation services.....
iancom:
quote: how do i check two HTML documents against eachother to see if there are any differences? I dont really want to have to go through by hand and check the HTML. I wanna see if the HTML changes when the problems occur (actually a guy a bugzilla asked me).
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Save each html file, and from a shell prompt:
diff doc1.html doc2.html
that should give you a list of all the differences between the two files.
I have noticed the same problem on both Mozilla/Win32 and Mozilla/KDE, but haven't really thought much of it...!
iancom:
quote: Hell, I got alot of rendering errors with Mozilla. Lets not forget to mention that there are a bunch of sites that are incompatible with it.
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This is only because a lot of developers only bother to test their sites on IE, since they think that's all anybody uses. Mozilla actually renders much more faithfully to agreed HTML standards.
As more people use browsers other than IE (and AOL should provide a fair influx of new Netscape/Mozilla users) developers will be forced to test on at least IE and Netscape in order not to alienate a large part of their intended audience.
[ April 30, 2002: Message edited by: IanC ]
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