Okay, so, after all the discussion of browsers, I’ve installed Firefox 0.9.1 onto my machine. And, yeah, I’m feeling my way through various tweaks and such, but it seems workable. Hell, I even figured out how to get my Links bar back, which was looking to be a real hassle.
Then I started looking at my blog page. And … uh …
… thar be different things going on thar, matey.
For one thing, the WeatherUnderground graphic has vanished, but WeatherPixie’s graphic is back (the code was in there, but there seems to be something odd about the way that Firefox vs IE read comments that I have to dig into).
And my individual archive pages look weird, too.
And the pictures in the sidebar no longer have spaces between them. Which is … weird.
More to follow.
UPDATE: Some downloaded XPIs autoinstall as extensions, others just download and sit there. Annoying. Not sure why. Worked around it, but, still, annoying.
Look for the –>’s on your front page too: that’s kinda weird… I think there’s some html comments that aren’t closing right.
Yeah, the things that the stricter coding of Firefox does with the lazy-css on my web pages kept me from using it for awhile out of sheer embarrassment at the reminders that I’d screwed something up.
I finally pointed one of those HTML validator sites at my page and sorted through most of the ugliness by making everything (mostly) official valid code.
All of the links under “us” are gone too and your gottas are now under the ‘us” heading
I use FireFox solely to see if my blog looks funny to the mozilla branch. And validating is nice, too. 😉
Aha. Strict HTML standards do not allow multiple hyphens within a comment, e.g.,
<!– —————- –>
And since I’ve thrown in a number of the above as “spacers” in my code, that was screwing some stuff up.
I suspect that will be the case in a number of errors showing up here.
Which also seems to frell up things if I put a double-dash inside of a blog title, since that then gets transferred inside of a commented syndication thang I have … which maybe I’ll just do away with. Hrm.
And I have to tweak the individual archieves, for the same multi-hyphen reason. Which means a bunch o’ rebuilding.
1. Managed to fix the header with a not-entirely-kosher “br clear=all” to break between the logo graphic and the text below it. Firefox wanted to try to moosh it together with the following divs, whereas IE didn’t.
2. The “Your comments” tag in the comments box is a scosh off, largely because I swiped the javascript B/I/U/URL tags for this page from MT — and, under Firefox, they don’t work. Looking for a workaround on that.