276296 - See Microsoft IE for the correct display of this site!

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[V.S.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

1. There should be no vertical and horisontal lines (which look like crosses
(and probably are the parts of the hidden tables)) on this
http://www.geocities.com/of_My_Education/ page!

2. Look at any other page of that website (next after Home-page level) --
words-hiperlinks WITHIN the pages' text areas should NOT be underlined!

Note: You will easily see these differences by comparing this site's pages with
their CORRECT display in the Microsoft's Internet Explorer!

Please report your ideas to me at [e-mail]

Thanks,
V.S.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.geocities.com/of_My_Education/ using Mozilla Firebox
2. Open the same site using Microsoft internet Explorer
3. Compare Home and any other pages of the next level!

Actual Results:  
See for yourself how Mozilla draws the abovementioned "crosses" on the Home page
and underlines hyperlinked words everywere, when IE does NOT do it!

Expected Results:  
Bad site presentation and impossibility in using nice Mozilla's printing
capabilities!

I think this case is crystally clear!

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

1. The "crosses" are borders inside tables due to: <table border=1

2. The links are correctly underlined following this markup.
<a><span style="text-decoration: none;">

Any text is not decorated by default, so using that <span> makes no sense, and
would be the same as not having it there at all. <a> underlines undecorated text
that it contains, and there's nothing in this markup that tells it not to
underline it.

Here's the ideas:

1. Don't use Macrocrap Word for webpage creation.
2. Don't use tables for layout.
3. If you want to do web publishing, actually learn HTML and CSS.
4. Words "IE" and "correct" in the same sentence make us laugh and cry at the
same time.


INVALID.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You can check the validity of that page using the W3C validator.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.com%2Fof_My_Education%2F

Correcting some of those issues will make your page render correctly. As
mentioned, Microsoft Word is not an HTML editor and it's output is NOT standard
compliant in any way.