Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-22 Thread Michael MD
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

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-22 Thread Breton Slivka
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]

[WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Price
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

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread Lars Michael Sørensen
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

RE: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread James Leslie
@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

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Price
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

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread David Laakso
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

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread Kurt Lovelace
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,

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread Karl Lurman
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