On Tuesday 05 October 2004 01:32, Gil Weber wrote:
I'm using SuSE 9.1 pro and Mozilla 1.6. For months I have had no problems. Then about 2 weeks ago I started having problems with one website. Other than regular updates using the Yast2 on-line update feature and RedCarpet (KDE and Pacman updates only), I have not made any changes. To the best of my knowledge I have not changed any settings.
When I go to this site -----> http://www.optiboard.com/forums/ my browser calls up the home page. No problem. Then when I click on any of the discussion forums (for example, "General Discussion Forum"), that page opens without problems.
Then....
If I click on any discussion thread within that forum (or on ANY discussion thread in ANY other forum on this website), the page opens to the thread but then Mozilla immediately closes.
This is the only website where I am having this problem. I don't have any idea where to begin looking for a fix. I have contacted the webmaster but he is a Windows person and can provide no assistance.
Any ideas, gurus?
They could try cleaning up the html on their site, which isn't valid. The best way I've found to do this is to use the World Wide Web Consortium validator at http://validator.w3.org. If you do that with their page, you'll see a vast slew of errors. The web is awash with broken html/xhtml, much of it produced by Front Page, I suspect. See if the folks at that site are prepared to do the decent thing and produce standards compliant pages, if not, tell them that's the reason you're stopping using the site. A quick glance at the site in the version of Internet Explorer the webmaster happens to have on his machine is often all the checking the code gets, but it's important to conform to the standards for interoperability, and particularly to provide consistent results for users with disabilities, visual impairments and so on. Cheers Fergus
Thanks! Gil
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