Eyebrow-raising Firefox problem
I’ve come across a problem with a website I’m developing. My nifty code works fine for all browsers except Firefox. Yes, that’s right – Firefox fails to render the page as intended but Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera all work fine.
I’ve put a demonstration of the problem here.
I’m surprised that Firefox behaves so differently from other browsers. We all know which browsers we think are non-standards-compliant. If I’d been posting this about an Internet Explorer behaviour then I wouldn’t have expected any surprise or sympathy. But Firefox. I’m getting cramp in my eyebrows – they’ve been permanently raised since I discovered this.
I’m hoping there’s a way I can code round the problem. The latest version of Firefox (3.0.2) still exhibits this odd behaviour.
Hi Dominic,
sent you a direct tweet, but here are some more details:
It seems that it is FireFox and latest nightly from Webkit that are right – and standard.
Safari (did not test in the other mentioned) notes the error (layout.php sent as mime/text) but assumes it being CSS, thus displaying properly. Still it’s an error, and one that only not truly standard compliant ones will display well.
It smacks of a header problem – in the webserver probably. Apache? Set it to handle php properly?
Sig
Much obliged, Sig. At least I know where to look now. Cheers!