It's a bit pedantic, but it's actually IE that has this wrong. Since
Firefox's ecmascript implementation is the basis for the ecmascript
standard- any deviation from firefox that IE exhibits is by definition
breaking the standard. Cute eh?
On Nov 22, 2007 10:12 AM, Karl Lurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Leslie wrote:
You could try using a plug-in such as HTML validator for Firefox that
will put a little icon on the bottom right of your firefox browser to
show you if a page is valid or not and it will show you errors too. It
uses the HTML tidy software
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozi
Firefox is also a little naughty when it comes to Javascript parsing.
A friend of mine pointed out how he always gets caught out when
declaring objects in JSON:
var JsonObject{
objectFunction:function() {
// blah
}, // extra comma here...
}
Firefox will happily parse this o
James' advice is it -- there are gobs of plug-ins for FireFox.
There are plug-ins to not only validate HTML but whole singular
toolkits for working with the entire plethora of site spewage:
cookies, CSS, images, links, Id tags, div orders, stack levels,
anchors, block sizes, frames, header
Chris Price wrote:
I build websites on a Mac and have to check my websites on another
machine in order to view them in IE.
I experience the usual issues with IE applying css differently than
Firefox but my biggest frustrations, lately, have come from errors in
my html that Firefox has happily
James Leslie wrote:
You could try using a plug-in such as HTML validator for Firefox that
will put a little icon on the bottom right of your firefox browser to
show you if a page is valid or not and it will show you errors too. It
uses the HTML tidy software
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozill
: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover
I build websites on a Mac and have to check my websites on another
machine in order to view them in IE.
I experience the usual issues with IE applying css differently than
Firefox but my biggest frustrations, lately, have come from errors in my
html
I would begin by installing Firebug and Yslow extensions in FF.
There's also a HTML validator based on Tidy that could be handy, but
you get the same level of validation w/ Firebug so no need to install
both (although I happen to have).
Other extensions worth having: Web developer Toolbar. I think
I build websites on a Mac and have to check my websites on another
machine in order to view them in IE.
I experience the usual issues with IE applying css differently than
Firefox but my biggest frustrations, lately, have come from errors in my
html that Firefox has happily ignored but IE has