Works with IE5 but not NS7!

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Works with IE5 but not NS7!

Postby Markalark » Sun 20 Oct, 2002 1:43 pm

Here's a page that will not render correctly in NS7. Works fine in IE5. Makes me wonder.
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[Reformatted by Antony]
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-SillyDog)
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Postby DJGM » Sun 20 Oct, 2002 2:13 pm

Open a BugZilla account and submit a Tech Evangelism bug report about
the site. I've just checked the site in both Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla 1.2b,
and I get the same messed up formatting, on that site in both browsers.
It is not the fault of NS7.0 or Mozilla, it is just bad web design. The site
is broken. It's not the browser that's broken the site, but the fault of it's
lazy developer(s), catering primarily for users of near obsolete browsers
that have very poor standards compliance, like MSIE5.x and Netscape 4.x.
The website in question appears equally messed up in Opera version 6.05.

The U.S.P.S. Should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves because of this!
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-DJGM-i.net)
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Postby profman » Sun 20 Oct, 2002 2:16 pm

All text in the above page displays correctly if you override the page's color scheme. I do this by unchecking the Color box in prefbar which I have installed, although you can go into Netscape's preferences to preform the same task.

After you can see all the text, spacing between lines seems to be the major problem. I suspect that the web experts on this forum could probably trace down the code problems in the page (like DJGM above who beat me to this post).
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (nscd2)
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