mekkab's Journal: Firefox fails it.

This chat has been hit by the dreaded /. page-wideners!!!

ACtually, thats not the case. The lame host has posted a HORRIBLE, login-only nexis link (air head!@) and it breaks firefox 1.0.4.

IE has it looking good!

Open source; you can't compete.

opera renders it properly

[subgeek]

which means i don't care what it looks like in any other browser.

Re:opera renders it properly

[mekkab]

Ive been using Opera at home instead of Safari.

Glad to hear opera does it right.

Yep, it's broadsiding me here...

[Ashtead]

And the disclaimer, (If for some reason you have trouble with the link, this was published on Nov. 19, 2003.) isn't exactly suggesting much in the way of a fix either...

Then there are these slightly less than wonderful ads "floating on top" that obscures the widened text, an recent variety of web-plague. I've seen that phenomenon elsewhere, only way to read the text beneath is to select and copy it to the clipboard, then paste into an open editor-window. I'm not sure if the bug is on Firefox or on the we

Re:Yep, it's broadsiding me here...

[mekkab]

if the bug is on Firefox or on the webpage being less than standards-compliant.

I think you mean "Not sure if its a firefox bug or if its optimized for IE"

same difference, really.