Re: [Sheflug] Browser rendering problem

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 14:42 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've taken over the site I referred to on Sunday (I decided to shell out to 
> M$ to get the takeover done quickly) and now I have a peculiar rendering 
> problem. The site is www.tideswellmvc.co.uk.
> 
> I've tried several instances of Mozilla Firefox running on different 
> machines, and some of them show the background pattern while others don't. 
> One of them shows one of the images, a sort of one-colour logo on a 
> transparent ground, while the others don't.
> 
> The machines are a mixture of 32- and 64-bit, Gentoo and Windows. Among them 
> I have two 64-bit machines running Gentoo, both of them up to date, and 
> Mozilla-Firefox 3.0.5; one of them shows the page properly and the other 
> doesn't. On the one that doesn't I've moved my .mozilla directory and 
> restarted Firefox, but saw no change.
> 
> Two machines were booted into WinXP, where both IE7 and Firefox displayed 
> the page properly.
> 
> Can anyone here suggest anything else I might try?
> 

First thing I'd do would be to get the pages validating, if you have a
look at this:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.tideswellmvc.co.uk%2F

you are missing your doc types. This could be throwing the browsers.

>From the way you describe the page, it looks fine in FF3 for me.

Robin




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