Closed Bug 110732 Opened 23 years ago Closed 16 years ago

netscape.com - inserted advertising breaks layout

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: aufbau01, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: top100, top500)

mywebpage.netscape.com adds a banner ad to my page in such a way that the page becomes invalid: * It puts the HTML you upload inside a table, so if your code contains a doctype and a <head> element, the doctype and <head> are now inside a table. It should add the table inside the <body> element instead, without wrapping the other contents of the body in anything. * The table uses bgcolor="#ffffff" several times, even though my page specifies an HTML4-strict doctype. * It puts zero-margins on the outer <body> element, preventing web authors from using simple header-and-paragraph layouts unless they're clever enough to override the margins with css. * It adds an extra blank line to the bottom of the page. * The server sends a iso-8859-1 charset header even though my page specifies utf-8 in a meta-charset.
OS: Windows 98 → All
Priority: -- → P1
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: mywebpage.netscape.com - mangles my beautiful, valid HTML → netscape.com - mangles my beautiful, valid HTML
Blocks: 118291
Niels, the page has other problems now but it appears that the problem introduced by the header is fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I don't think any of the problems I mentioned above were fixed. I still see an extra blank line at the bottom of each page, and the pages don't come close to validating.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Niels, Sorry, I made a mistake. I must not have looked far enough because you are definitely correct: <tr><td align="left" valign="top" background=""> <!-- main BODY begin --> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Pornzilla 0.9.1</title>
Keywords: evang500
wfm for real this time.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
sorry, wrong bug. reopening
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
tech evang june 2003 reorg
Assignee: bc → english-us
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: zach → english-us
-> p3 (minor site, major problem) as for validation issues, this really isn't the place to complain: the issue is netscape's auto-inserted ads, so i'd contact them. INVALID?
URL: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt... → http://mywebpage.netscape.com/aufbau01/
Priority: P1 → P3
Summary: netscape.com - mangles my beautiful, valid HTML → netscape.com - inserted advertising breaks layout
I think this is valid evangelism for people with free hosting who would like to use valid content.
Keywords: top500
Keywords: top100
i agree that this is valid evangelism, i don't think this is the right place for it: this doesn't address a bug in mozilla. rather, it's just a gripe about mywebpage.netscape.com. such feedback is appropriate for their feedback system, not mozilla's bugzilla.
-> fixed "Hometown Has Been Shutdown"
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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