On 2/21/2009 8:51 AM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 2/14/2009 7:22 AM, 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. >>> >>> Using the wheel as an example, and scrolling from top to bottom, the >>> right 2/3 or so of the screen scrolls upward ahead of the left 1/3, with >>> the left portion about one-half a line behind the right. Once the right >>> 2/3 stops scrolling, the left 1/3 catches up (in less than a second) and >>> everything looks okay. Same situation exists scrolling the other way: >>> the left 1/3 lags a fraction of a line for a fraction of a second. >>> >>> I haven't observed this behavior at other sites; it does not occur using >>> Internet Explorer. >>> >>> Any idea about the cause of this odd annoyance? Are there internal >>> settings in SM I can change to correct it? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> >> As I said in another thread, IE is programmed to "guess" what a Web >> developer meant when invalid HTML was used. Mozilla's Gecko engine and >> other browsers do the same thing. >> >> The problem is that different browsers guess differently. Thus, the >> results in IE and SeaMonkey will likely not be the same when trying to >> display a pathological Web page. If the invalid HTML is sufficiently >> buggy, one browser might (by unplanned coincidence) guess correctly >> while another will just display garbage. >> > This happen when the website developper use only a microsoft tool to > create the site, and use only IE to check his pages...if all goes well, > he think that it's the case for all the world.
According to various surveys (including my own), IE's share of the browser market has declined to 45%-60%. This is down as much as 44% since a peak in March 2003. (Gecko browsers now hold 33%-46% of the market.) Any developer who creates a Web site "best viewed with Internet Explorer" has tied his or her fate to a fading star and is ignoring half the potential audience. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
