| Jeff Abrahamson on 13 Apr 2005 14:13:21 -0000 |
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:13:31AM -0400, Jeff McAdams wrote: > [41 lines, 297 words, 1737 characters] Top characters: etaoinls > > Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > The following page does not render properly for me in mozilla 1.7.5: > > > http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bel23/ > > > I see overlapping text: the bottom contact info displays in partial > > overlap with the bullet list. > > > I have seen this sort of error before with mozilla, so I would like to > > submit a bug report, but I am unsure what to say besides the above. > > It's also not worth submitting a bug report if this has been fixed in > > later versions. > > > Can anyone help me make this more specific or tell me that it's fine > > for them with a later version of mozilla? > > Before trying to report it as a bug in Mozilla, you should run it > through the W3C's relevant validators...just HTML, in this case (no > CSS). I think you'll find that the page does not validate as valid HTML. > > Mozilla does do its best to try to render pages as best in can when > they're not valid HTML, but, really, all bets are off. > > [...] Thanks, all. I was expecting a bit too much of mozilla, I suppose. I'll let the issue drop, then. BTW, it's not my page, so I can't actually fix it. It was just bothering me that mozilla couldn't display it properly. Thanks again for reminding me that html has to be correct before I can expect mozilla to display properly. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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