302769 - When viewing website, font sizes are altered randomly, links don't work, when updating webpage punctuation is changed from ' to ?.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[blackt2003]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Similar problems also occur in 
http://www.geocities.com/fallenempire2000/travis.html 
http://www.geocities.com/fallenempire2000/trendyalbum.html
Contacted geocities to see if it was a problem with coding as the site has
worked fine in every other browser I have ever tried.  Geocities tech support
said that Mozilla is not a good browser, "Garbage" was the actual description.
Recommended I use netscape or IE. There are no java script or complicated
applications on the site, only text and pictures.  I still want to use Mozilla,
but it appears incompatible with simple html coding in this case. Is there
something wrong with the site or does Mozilla simply not like the fonts. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to any of the above listed sites 
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The font diplays incorrectly and changes to smaller or larger sizes randomly
when the coding is for the same size. Roughly half of the links do not work and
appear as just text.


Expected Results:  
Displayed the site as every other browser does.

Also when updating in Mozilla, all of the ' punctuation is changed to ?, so it
is impossible to update when using Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

If you don't like Times New Roman as default, you might change it to Verdana.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

blackt, your html is pretty messed up. You open font tags but never seem to
close them. We have hacks in place to help authors that leave font tags open but
I don't think I've _ever_ seen a page without a single block (div, p, etc) which
uses this style of code. 

every <font> needs to be closed by a </font>. Try to find a basic tutorial on
writing HTML. It helps.

As for the ? appearing when editing, try setting the encoding to automatic
detection of universal and see if that helps. View->Character Encoding->Auto
Detect->Universal.

As for "Geocities tech support said that Mozilla is not a good browser,
"Garbage" was the actual description. Recommended I use netscape or IE.",
perhaps Yahoo needs to educate their tech support staff at Geocities.

-> INVALID.