March 19th, 2007

IE stricter than Firefox

Firefox vs Explorer
Firefox vs Explorer
Today I have found a situation were IE 7.0 was more stricter in the way it displayed the code than Firefox, impossible you say? Well so I also thought until I wasted half a day sorting it out.

The problem was that we had a spacer gif (yes they still exist and no its not my descion to have them there) and seeing the previous web content manager did not close the tag off properly ( /> ) it for some reason would flow over the side menu bar and would not allow the user to click on the menu options. This was only found due to testing the Intranet (for my part time job) and after I have been preaching and been ignored about my stance on valid code, so now it looks like my preaching will not be wasted with them having no option but to validate the code.

The question I have is, if an image (or spacer gif) is not coded properly, should it still display properly like Firefox and IE 6 or should it not like IE 7? Any opinions, suggestions etc?

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With some coding I did today in regards to a new client (released on 1st April), I found out that clear: both does not work in IE 7.

I tried to use it to get an element to move but it worked in Firefox but not IE 7. Just slack coding I guess as with some proper structure it worked in IE and Firefox without any need of clear: both.

Comment by GermWorks — March 19th, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

IE is not to be underestimated, don’t forget that about 6 years ago it was the leader in standards and features.

Comment by Thomas — June 17th, 2007 @ 5:47 am

Yeah Thomas that was however 6 years ago. They have rested on their success in beating Netscape and now FF is on the way up they brought out IE 7.0 in a knee jerk reaction.

btw in case anyone is wondering for an update for the original problem it was broken tags. If the &ltp&gt or &ltimg&gt were not closed, it would make nothing click -able from that point on (go over the top of links etc). It is quite strange, has anyone else seen this??

Comment by GermWorks — June 18th, 2007 @ 9:24 am

[…] This is rather obvious but when will we see browsers behaving similar and consistent? I have given up trying to count my gray hairs from working on IE or Firefox problems. […]

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