Posted: 9/13/2007 6:47:53 AM EDT
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Anybody ever seen this one before? I have a page on the net. In IE, the page is rendered properly and when you do View Source, it shows the HTML exactly as written. When you view the same page in Firefox, it inserts all sorts of font color tags and other things that weren't in the original HTML, making the page unreadable. It completely rewrote the HTML for the page. Anybody ever seen that? Why would Firefox do something that stupid? |
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ARFCOM doesn't work for me in Firefox - I suspect it's because all of the certain scripts that are running and Firefox won't accept (ActiveX for example). And because I run in widescreen resolution? But yeah, it's really weird - images wont' show up, or they're be replaced by other images. Some sort of strange rendering problem 
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 Been using it here for years. In my web dev experience IE is usually the problem. |
List of signers As just one problem, in IE the lettering in the list is black. In FF, it is changed to white. It is an ASP.NET generated page. If you bring it up in both and do view source, the HTML shown by IE is the correct HTML for that page. View the source in FF and it is way different. All kinds of new stuff added that wasn't there in the original. |
Parts are generated and parts are not. However, the HTML is still the same from either when it comes off the server. No, it clearly doesn't display it as given. Not even close. |
EXCELLENT post, and it proves what I said earlier. |
Thanks Subnet. That's an honor coming from you. 
You do that too, huh?  There may be a way to do it with IE7, but I've never looked into it since I don't normally use IE.
Those are handy add-ons, although in my personal experience IE-specific pages are rare enough that when I do encounter one I usually decide I wasn't that interested after all or, in the very rare cases, I simply fire up IE separately and manually copy and paste the URL. Something about introducing IE into Firefox gives me the willies.  |
I think I smell a big fat Microsoft rat. ETA: not necessarily a deliberate fuckover by Microsoft (although they've done that in the past), but probably a configuration screwup that generates crap for Firefox. BTW, I'm using Mozilla, and am seeing the white text. |
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Looks like it was specifically made to display differently on non Microsoft browsers. The page was constructed in Microsoft's Virtual Studio using Virtual Basic with a schema from schemas . microsoft . com / intellisense / ie5. If you look at the page source it is a browser specific page with different displays depending on which browser opens it. The HTML is the same from page to page. There are java tags which specifically displaying the lettering as white in the table. Just another example of Microsoft not wanting people to use anything but their products. |
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