Site Optimized for Firefox?
Our local newspaper here, the Star-Tribune,
just rolled out their new website design. Interestingly, the site
appears to be opitmized for Firefox, as the top navigation buttons have
drop down menus that appear in Firefox, but not it IE. The
doctype they use is HTML 4.01 Strict, and using my Html Tidy firefox
extension, it appears that their html is rather clean. As I said, they
just rolled the site out this morning, and the site was actually down
for a few hours it seemed (at least for me, not sure what my deal is
lately). Also, if you move your mouse over the top navigation
buttons in Firefox, you can see three advertisement windows flash on
the screen quickly, if you move your mouse quickly over the buttons,
you can see who the ad is for :-) The flashing ad thing is
definitely a javascript bug, I’m not sure where those ads are supposed
to show up, but its rather annoying right now.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 11:11 am
I see a dropdown menu in IE 6. You’re right though the code does look pretty lean and compliant. I just noticed something too, they’re using a class on an end tag. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
breichelt said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 11:18 am
Hmmm, I wonder why I dont see the menus? I’ve never seen the class on an end tag either, and I cant imagine that its required for Html 4.01 strict, maybe some anal web master??
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 12:21 pm
I see the drop down menus in IE6 as well, and the little things don’t flash in IE6, but they do in FireFox…
the menus are buggy in both though, sometimes when you move from one button to another, the drop down menu stays in the previous button
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
uh… I got the bug, if you move the mouse from one button to another, but you move it exactly to the little arrow, the drop down menu will stay in the previous button, this behaviour is consistent in both IE and Firefox… I woulndn’t say that the site is optimized for Firefox though… catchy line though =oP
breichelt said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 12:47 pm
yeah, I’m seeing that bug as well, and you’re right, the site doesn’t appear to be optimized for firefox, for some reason I’m simply not seeing the menus in IE. I tried deleting my internet cache and refreshing, I’m not sure what the issue is, in any case it doesn’t really matter a whole lot to me because I use firefox anyways
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 12, 2005 @ 1:32 pm
I see a big benefit from a class in an end tag for a div, if it’s xhtml valid. I usually add an extra div to hold a footer image but if I can class the end tag, I don’t need that extra div anymore.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 14, 2005 @ 11:22 am
Ok, I wrote some test code and it doesn’t validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Back to extra divs I guess…sigh.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on November 2, 2005 @ 10:50 am
I hate running into sites that won’t work unless you use IE, so it’s nice to finally see some sites designed to work with Firefox….