We previously thought the overlap problem was being caused by a non-compliant rendering engine in netscape's browsers.
From: Jay Garcia <Jay@JayNOSPAMGarcia.com>
Subject: Re: FF takes 5 minutes to load!
Newsgroups: mozilla.support.firefox
On 03.09.2009 13:57, Sarah Austin wrote:
--- Original Message ---
> squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote :
>
>> On 03.09.2009 14:03, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Lion Irons
>> to generate the following:? :
>>> "Ron Hunter" <rphunter@charter.net> wrote in message
>>> news:r6KdnWwvx-S_GgLXnZ2dnUVZ_opi4p2d@mozilla.org...
>>>
>>>> Sarah Austin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been a happy user of Seamonkey ( latest ) but Adwords new
>>>>> interface is balking at it now, saying I need "a modern browser",
>>>>> such as Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I just downloaded Firefox 3.5x and installed it but the thing
>>>>> takes about 5 minutes to start up.
>>>>>
>>>>> And the weird thing is, I hit ctl-alt-del to watch the process and
>>>>> it's slowly loading about 580 megs of something as it starts.
>>>>>
>>>>> What the heck is going on?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Sarah,
>>>> When you download a new program, ALWAYS go to the source, and
>>>> always download the latest version.
>>>> 3.5.0 had a problem in this respect. Check for updates, and update
>>>> to 3.5.2 and this problem should be solved.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> anyone who has read the post in this group would realize that even
>>> the latest version has the same problem. Firefox is a resource hog,
>>> the most popular fix is to keep closing and reopening FF.
>>>
>>> I use IE I never have this problem, its also much more secure and
>>> almost all web pages display correctly
>>>
>>>
>>
>> yes - well /ALMOST ALL/ websites display correctly in FF.... the
>> sites that DO NOT display correctly are those coded for IE.... that
>> is, are non-W3C compliant.
>
> Oh REALLY? Try http://www.coloradoprocessservers.net/
> The owner had to tweak it in Seamonkey AND Internet Explorer just to
> keep the two graphics from overlapping the text at the top there. The
> W3C link is at the bottom, it IS compliant.
>
> It's apparently the rendering engine in FF and Seamonkey.
>
>> I wonder why that is??
>> Do you have an explanation as to why non-compliant coding doesn't
>> show correctly in Firefox (and other) browsers??
>
> Or why compliant coding doesnt?
>
>
Oh really, yes. The doctype declaration is not correct, it should be:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
Even more correct would be:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
It's the screwball doctype that is messing things up, not Firefox.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion
www.ufaq.org
Netscape - Flock - Firefox - Thunderbird - Seamonkey Support
Melissa Rhiannon
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