Firefox and Flickr

>>Any Firefox experts?<<

Actually – without seeing a link or anything – my bet is that you don’t need a Firefox expert. You need to learn to code for standards.

If all you’ve been using is IE (especially IE6 and prior) then it’s a mistake to code for IE, and try to fix it for other browsers. My guess is that’s what you’ve done.

Again, this is a guess, because you haven’t provided a link or anything. But I bet if you run your page and CSS through the validator, you’re gonna come up with *lots* of errors. Fix those, and you might be in a better position to fix the problem you’re having.

doodlebee, there you are! i am on a mac and use safari. since working with WP i have gotten away from IE – entirely.

i have done the validator thing and there are lot’s of errors that look ok! the validator has issues ?? but let’s see where this discussion ends up 3-6 months from now.

i am working on css through the backdoor = firefox/dreamweaver then try to recreate in css. it is a slow process at this end.

do you need a link to help me with flickr? thanks!

i just noticed that the technorati, blogline, etc., icons are gone also in firefox…

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Hmm…(and yes, here I am ?? Been mighty busy – which is why I’m so slow – sorry ’bout that)

Yeah, a link would be great. At least then we could actually *see* what we’re trying to fix ??

i have done the validator thing and there are lot’s of errors that look ok! the validator has issues ??

The validator has no issues. Really. If it says your page is invalid, I’d trust it more than I’d trust you.

Valid code is not a matter of “it looks ok”. There is a standard. If you do not adhere to that standard, then it doesn’t matter how it looks.

otto, no argument with your POV. at issue may be my inability to decipher the validator. i find it hard to locate where the error sits in the document. i have gone through the FAQ’s, the this and that, etc. any light on this one? the site below has 86 non-valid issues.

doodlebee, welcome back… while waiting i went directly to firefox support. i was instructed to open a new profile and everything is working. now i have to add the items back and see if there is a conflict or maybe something was corrupt. i might just let sleeping dogs lie and rebuild on an as-needed basis.

here is the site and currently all sidebar images on page one are there vs just links earlier today…

https://petmonologues.com (note: the home page is a table configured page while i learn css construction better and how to talk to the database = fancy static page.)

Okay. Looking at your actual page, here: https://www.petmonologues.com/pet022207/

First error: You’re missing a title in the head section. Titles are not optional in XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Second error: <br> all by itself is invalid and unclosed in XHTML. Use <br></br> instead, or preferably .

Third problem: <a href=http... is invalid. All attributes of tags must be surrounded by quotes or double quotes. Use <a href="http..."> instead.

And so on. These are not difficult to fix, mostly. Just run the validator, go fix the error it tells you, then come back and run it again. Usually fixing one error will make several of the errors that the validator gives you disappear. Takes no real time to do. And it makes it a *lot* easier to fix display problems when the page is valid code.

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petmonologues.com%2Fpet022207%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1#line-96

As far as finding the error.. Turn on “Show Source” and it will make the line numbers clickable, taking you right to the error in your source.

Ottos’ last post should read “use <br />“- just so you know. (Self-closing tags are great – less markup.)

Everything else he said is absolutely correct ??

Huh. The forum edited it out. It was supposed to be:

“Use <br></br> instead, or preferably <br />.”

But either is acceptable and valid. The former is acceptable for both HTML and XHTML. The latter is only valid for XHTML.

ok, did not run away and hide. got busy. thanks and i will start pecking away at the non-valid code.

ok, looked at my very latest post today = 5/15/07, a mini-post using mini-post widget. i looked at the post code directly via admin panel and the code looks correct. i then went into mini-post options and the following code =

mini-post format = <br>%date% %post% %more% %commentcount%

more format =

is there a problem here because it would account for quite a few errors?!

oops, it looks like the “mini-post format” and “more format” code has to be written differently. i am going to add one additional space in between integers…

mini-post format = <br> %date% %post% %more% %commentcount%

more format =

does the percent = “

let’s see if this works…

mini-post format = final code in this line =

more format = there is a % in place of the ” = aref=%http

don’t know why the self-enclosed line break tag does not appear for me in my comments. i am going to copy/past otto’s tag =

i am wasting paper here…

are you using the backtick to surround your code? It looks like your comments are getting parsed. You need to surround code with backticks so it won’t get parsed.