FireFox works with this

  • I don’t know if this was known … several Templates I used didn’t work with FireFox.
    Until a friend and FireFoxFan and I found out, that removing the first line in header.php (<doctype …>) may be not correct, but then the site is to be seen right in IE and FireFox.

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  • What themes exactly do you mean? Have you already tried to get in contact with the authors of these themes? ??

    you can also try validateing them at w3c and tweak them.. sometimes its not the theme, you have to adjust plugin code for a theme since all themes are built differently..

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    Yes but it seems that header.php is always quite the same and at least have the same Doctype directive that obviously gets misinterpreted by FireFox.
    That’s why FireFox has Problems with nearly all newer WordPress Blogs (with new Theme management) … I have about 20 running and all Themes did not work before.
    Anyway – its just a tipp – maybe someone else knows exactly which parameters have to be used so that all Browsers work …
    Fact is, without that line you do nothing bad for IE and are better off with FireFox … and what more do you need ??

    btw. we found it out with validating them … but to have an effect you must then do something … what we did

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    That’s why FireFox has Problems with nearly all WordPress Blogs.

    Huh?! Can you provide any support for your rather outlandish statement? I hardly consider 20 to be “nearly all WordPress Blogs”. For instance, all of my blog’s are compatible with all major browsers, especially Firefox. And, why would the WordPress developers advocate Firefox if “FireFox has Problems with nearly all WordPress Blogs”? Have you considered that it might be a plugin at fault? Would you please give us a URL so that we can investigate the situation?

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    Am I clearvoyant? Try it and see … I did not met one FireFox User that could view my sites before …

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    We can’t “try it and see” without a URL. I use Firefox all the time, and because of my volunteer status in these forums, I visit several WordPress blogs on a daily basis. I have yet to see one fail in Firefox.

    Mine look all the same ie, firefox, opera, flock, netscape and mozilla…

    https://www.aleeya.net
    https://www.girlgeekette.net

    unless i missed something

    just because they couldnt view yours in ff doesnt mean *nearly all* or *most* wordpress have this problem. thats the point of validation.. and not using MS proprietary things.. so it CAN be the same in all browsers

    ie willt ake bad code and compensate for it.. thats why it might look right in ie when it actually *isnt* coded right… if anything its a bad MS flaw because it gets people to design for looks in ie and not design code properly

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    And, feel free to browse through over 300 WordPress Themes:

    https://themes.wordpress.net/

    All of them work perfectly in Firefox.

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    That would mean that I have to replace my changed header files again …
    no sorry … I do not have the time for that …

    I don’t know what you guys did that it worked okay … for instance I used the Akhadian Theme and every FF User tells me “nice black letters on black background”
    Actually, then scrolling down they find some scrambled text … that’s why we first thought it has to do with the style sheet … then we presumed that the links to the theme folder could not be found by FireFox (old themes work – new themes didn’t)
    Anyway … I have to go to work … if you don’t have troubles with it – nice … then you don’t have to change anything…

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    macmanx, that’s what I did – and I picked the best (in my view) to use them … I cannot tell why I only met people that told me they cannot view my sites (without IE) … now they can …
    https://www.rrsoftware.net

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    If you can’t give us your URL, then we can’t help you. And, I can assure that there are no known incompatibilities between Firefox, WordPress, and the over 300 available themes listed here. Any incompatibilities encountered between the fore-mentioned entities would have been introduced by poorly-coded theme alterations, plugins, and/or hacks.

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    macmanx – I do not need help, okay? That’s why I changed to “No support question”…
    I have the link to the 300 themes and have downloaded about 100 to my server to use them as I need them…
    And one of the URLs is in a post above – but it doesn’t help you – ‘cos its without the Doctype line and I know that they now work and didn’t before…
    That’s all I can say …

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    And btw – I wanted to change to FireFox 2 month ago … had it one hour … but noticed that I cannot edit my sites and couldn’t view them either…
    So I went back to IE – always the better choice as I noticed

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I see, you edited your post and added the URL after I posted. Well, I can tell you that having no Doctype Declaration will cause your design to fail validation. Like I said, we could have helped you, but I guess you don’t want that.

    Thread Starter ralphroeske

    (@ralphroeske)

    I appreciate that ?? and I thank you.

    But I have only one goal … the normal usual Internet User should be able to view my sites … that’s all … and with that trick it seems to work for those who had problems before …
    Maybe other reasons add to that … perhaps the settings of my Win 2003 Webserver? I can’t tell … but that’s our solution for the moment ??

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