Ray K wrote: >If I go here, >http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/14/A-Possible-Cure-for-Diabetes-Ignored-by-Big-Pharma.aspx, >or to many other pages of the above site, vertical scrolling is strange, >whether dragging the scrolling bar or using the mouse wheel. > As Arne pointed out, the page is a steaming pile. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/14/A-Possible-Cure-for-Diabetes-Ignored-by-Big-Pharma.aspx It was constructed by a moron.
As Michael pointed out, the tool that was used was also garbage. The moron using it also wasn't aware that Web pages need to be validated against the W3C standard. >I haven't observed this behavior at other sites; > Bookmark this link and next time you have a problem with a page, feed its URL into the WorldWide Web Consortium's HTML Validator: http://validator.w3.org >it does not occur using Internet Explorer. > "IE Shines On Broken Code" http://google.com/search?q=cache:7-myeaT_Ew4J:it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/0236213+IE.Shines.On.Broken.Code+rss+IE.was.dynamically.rewriting.my.JavaScript.replacing.the.incorrect.delimiters.with.the.correct.ones#10563498 http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm/thread/5433c73b8b814610/bab28202f8f2981f?q=zz-zz+slashdot-*+IE-Shines-On-Broken-Code+guesses >Any idea about the cause of this odd annoyance? > Incompetent webmasters/developers. (Just as you did, they use M$'s broken browser to look at their garbage work and say "That works" --when it is, in fact, a total mess.) Professional Web developers despise Microsoft's software: http://google.com/search?q=cache:1WVAWYE4mFQJ:linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/008227+*.*-formed-*+*.*-*-*-*-work-in-all-*-*+*-*.*-*-*-time-*-*-to-*-*-*-*-*-*-implement-*-*+*-*-PITA-*-*-*+*-*-costs-*-*-a-ton-*-*+*-*-painful-*+*-standards-compliant-browsers+*-*-*-get-your-site+*-*-works-in-one-*+*-render-*-in-IE+elegant+*-*-*-renders-properly-*-*-*-*+*-*.*-*.*-*.*-etc+mangle#26617861 >Are there internal settings in SM I can change to correct it? > The problem is NOT at *your* end. Your standards-compliant browser isn't the problem. Ignorant/lazy people using bad (M$ ?) tools are the problem. http://google.com/search?q=cache:74WFzGYogbYJ:www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/+there-is-more-than-one-browser-*-*-*+Learn.more+a.free.and.open.web+*-bottom-line+*-*-*-*-*-have-problems-*-*-*+*-modified+*-*-not-controlled-by-a-few+via+upgrade+CVS+Complaining-*-*-*+Page+standards.based _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
