274699 - buttons on slideshow dont work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272379

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[fadedz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

this slide show was made with microsoft frontpage provided slide show tool. I
believe there is usually 5 thumbnails at the top with arrow buttons to advance
to new pictures. These buttons dont show up on Mozilla causeing the thumbnails
to extend far to the right causing the central picture to be far to the left and
scrolling must happen to view the larger picture. It works on internet explorer.
Unfortunatly IE is to risky to use for most due to high rates of virus's. While
I have reccommended the use of IE. I would prefer to recommend the use of mozilla.
Also, the format of the original web page
(http://fadedz.com/FADEDZAMAZINGADVENTURES.html)
Does not show up in the format it was created. IE displays it correctly. Mozilla
does not. 
Help


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the site http://fadedz.com/CLUE/clue.htm it shows up this way every time
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It's there to see each time you go.

Expected Results:  
buttons should show up shortening the thunbnail list

original format of page is displayed differently

Comment 1

[u63580]

A quick run through the w3 html validator shows lots of HTML errors.  I guess
the problem is the HTML, not FF -> probably invalid.

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 272379 

From your description, this is either a dup or INVALID (by design). It
is possible that Frontpage makes pages that are guarenteed not to work.

Comment 3

[fadedz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A quick run through the w3 html validator shows lots of HTML errors.  I guess
> the problem is the HTML, not FF -> probably invalid.

forgive me for bothering you again, but how is it the html errors dont create 
a problem for internet explorer? Only on mozilla? 
.......Cory

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

This is an old, old, story. The how? is that IE renders in its own way
various bad html - undefined behaviour; Mozilla and other standards 
compliant browsers are tested against good html and display it correctly.
Of course, all browsers have 'undefined behaviour' when the source is
outside specification, it is just that such behaviour varies, and is
not reliable.

For fuller information type 'web standards' into the URL Bar and
press return.

As to why? Who knows, why should someone put more effort into bad
code than good code ...

If you are bothered about your site displaying how it should, write
good html.

Having said that, your present problem may be that Frontpage emits
broken code, and there is nothing anyone can do about that.
 

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The reason it's a duplicate of a bug that was resolved invalid is not that the
FrontPage generated HTML is bad, or that we don't know how to do IE-specific
things, it's because the FrontPage generated JavaScript specifically tells us
not to show just 5 thumbnails, but to show all of them instead. We are doing
exactly what the page tells us to do, and to change that you as a customer of
Microsoft need to tell them that you want a tool which doesn't treat other
browsers as though they were all six year old copies of Netscape Navigator 4.x.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272379 ***