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Originally Posted by drpino it's true that some sites don't serve properly to FF because they're coded out of spec and geared towards IE. best thing to do is drop an email to the webmaster and request WWWC compliance (citing the ever increasing popularity of FF is a good thing as well). IEView is also a handy extension that I use.
i also use Tweak Network settings extension which handles many of the tweaks available in about:config (typed in address bar) that would otherwise have to be done manually (Sexy_Southerner has a post detailing these tweaks). |
Complying to standards still leaves webmasters far short of multi-browser compatability.
As a new webmaster myself, I've been pretty shocked and appalled at the problems I'm faced with.
1) IE only extensions to HTML.
2) Lack of CSS/CSS2 compliance in IE (better in FF and Opera).
3) Certain valid W3 tags not impletemented in ANY major browser.
4) Different behaviours between browsers when fed perfectly valid (X)HTML.
5) Well known browser bugs which are still not fixed ( "<area> tag in IE for example).
I could add more items to the list.
Even the first website I created whilst learning XHTML1.1 and CSS2 displays differently between IE and FF despite w3.org telling me it's perfectly valid XHTML and CSS. No fancy formatting is used and it even uses tables rather than <div> sections.
I have the reference cards from VisiBone and even then, it's a royal PITA trying to design a site which works and displays correctly on all the top browsers (IE, Netscape, FF and Opera).