276701 - 877myshell.com - most of the page is blank

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mohit Aron]

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


When I open the site http://www.877myshell.com/ in Firefox, I get a blank page. 
However, the site opens fine in Internet Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just try opening the URL http://www.877myshell.com/ inside Firefox.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Firefox shows a blank page.

Expected Results:  
The page when opened inside IE shows lots of information - including asking one
to apply for the Citibank shell mastercard.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

This seems to be an error in the website - Internet Explorer uses a different
stylesheet than the ROW (rest-of-the world). The display in Firefox is the same
as in Safari 1.0.3 : a header, then a mostly empty page, with an item about
rebates and an apply-link at the bottom. In Explorer 5.2, that item is
immediately below the header.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

I compared current Mozilla nightly vs. Opera 8 beta, and they are showing the
same big white gap.

DOM Inspector shows the gap to be a table of 100% width and 100% heigth,

excerpt from the the source:
1st TR doesn´t contain a TD, but the table showing the text 'earn rebates'

<table border="0" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0" height="100%" width="100%">

  <tr>
  <table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr align="left" valign="top"> 
    <td width="560" align="right"> 

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The problem is caused by the missing <td> , see markup in comment 2.

Fix: add <td valign="top">

Comment 4

[Mohit Aron]

I'm not the web administrator of http://www.877myshell.com/. I'm just pointing
out that if IE is tolerant to such HTML errors, then perhaps Firefox should also 
be.

Comment 5

[Mihails Mihailovs]

No, Firefox should not be tolerant. Do you believe if the web-site is made with
a bunch of errors then we should correct those errors in the Firefox? Nonsense,
I suppose. 

Just look at this
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.877myshell.com%2F 
82 errors in one page. Impressing isn't it? =)

Comment 6

[Mohit Aron]

Would you rather prefer that a user be forced to use IE to view a site every time
a web administrator introduces an HTML error that IE is tolerant to and Firefox 
is  not ?

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed