Re: Firefox why does it have trouble with certain sites?

Michael Black wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Avid Fan wrote:

I love Firefox


I cannot understand why the Mac people went to all the trouble of writing Safari when they just could have supported the Firefox people to keep their Mac version updated.

My I have been told by experts that Internet Explorer does not truly follow the HTML standard while Firefox does.

Why is it that a tiny number of sites do not work properly on Firefox?

but do on internet explorer. Do the developers use broken code to deliberately stop Firefox?

What is going on?


I seem to recall that IE can handle tags that aren't standard, or something like that. It's based on the premise that it's "universal"
and hence they are improving things by adding more tags.

But then those tags cause problems with browsers that are merely
standard.

Another factor that may play in is that some webpages are terribly bloated. They are "composed" on software that puts all kinds of junk
in page, and nobody can really follow what it's all about because it's
just there. I suspect the more complicated a webpage is, the more
trouble it might give some browsers. SOme may be more expecting of
standards, and then will choke on not so great webpages, while other
browsers are more lenient and will handle oddities without a problem.

I use lynx as my main browser, and except for Flash sites, I find few
webpages that I can't use it with, though some may render better than
others.

But I have every so often hit webpages that check for browsers, and
turn you away, even though you can generally deal with the page.

Last year, I hit one page that offered up an error message, and
some searching showed that it was browser related. But I'd never
seen the message before. I could change the user agent header to
anything, random words or insults, and the error message went away,
but I got the error message the moment I changed the header back
to lynx. Really odd, initially I thought it was deliberate to
that site, but then I hit one or two other sites that offered
the same message. I assumed it was an "upgrade" of server software
that issued an error message when it wasn't really necessary. Since
July, I've not come across the message again, though I'm still using
lynx and the user agent header remains the same.

Michael


Thank you for all the replies.

I wonder if Mac users using Safari experience the same issues?

If you were going to the trouble to create a site for a major company you would think that you would test it a few of the major browers.


I am very happy with Firefox if 0.01% of companies do not want my business - So be it.
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