254543 - wimbledonbridgeclub.com - MS tool generated HTML that fails in non-IE browsers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Maurice Cahm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

So we all moved to Firefox on account of the terrible problems we had with IE
then we found that our website menus look misplaced and don't have hyperlinks
anyomre. Please don't fix this - just tell us how we can get it to look OK in
Firefox without doing a lot of work. The website was created using FrontPage2003.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. view www.wimbledonbridgeclub.com in Firefox - note position of menu
2. view www.wimbledonbridgeclub.com in IE - note position of menu
3. tell us what to do to correct

Actual Results:  
found noithing on your support FAQs (what's the search engine you use) and wrote
to you

Expected Results:  
Displayed as per IE and allowed user to click on Hyperlinks.

There's only a handful of us but if we revert to IE (and put a note on our
website re only supporting IE0 evebtually there won't be much need to fix any
bugs / handle any queries.

Comment 1

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

You seem to be using MS Word to create your page.  Upon saving, don't save as
"Web page", but as "Web page, filtered".  Filtering removes a lot of the excess
that MS Word adds that only IE understands.

For future reference, if you have problems that you don't think are a bug
specifically with Firefox or other Mozilla products, use the support forums at
http://www.mozillazine.org/

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

I'll take this.  I have a mockup of cleaned up code almost finished that you can
consider.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Attachment: Sample recoded home page

Here's a sample of a recoded home page, that works equally in IE and other
browsers.

This is based on the home page as of yesterday, since today it looks like
someone is attempting to recode it.

If you decide to recode and need assistance with other pages of the site, I can
help you out.  Leave a comment in this bug.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

Attachment: Logo for redone page

Ok, the images on my sample page broke because you changed yours overnight.  :)


New sample page coming next.

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

Attachment: New redone home page

Comment 6

[Maurice Cahm]

Bill,

Can't tahbk you enough. It looks really good.

Best wishes and thanks again,

Maurice

Comment 7

[Maurice Cahm]

Hi

Thanks again and sorry I made it more difficult for you by attempting to fix the
problem myself. Thanks also for your offer but I'll do the other pages.