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IE7 is crap


I had a complaint from a loyal reader about this site not rendering properly on IE. It got half way through my article on Ruby Metaclasses and stopped.

The problem was caused by my using the term <object> in my text and the wilki filter not changing the < and > into html entities. IE treated <object> as a keyword and tried to download a trojan or whatever it does in those circumstances. Presumably firefox saw that the semantics were totally wrong (for example, no attributes to direct it to a specific object) and ignored it.

Since I use firefox and I don't proof read ever article in every available browser this one slipped through.

Apologies for interruption of service.

And thanks again Dean for your concern.


Filed under: firefox ie

Spikeles Says:

11 months ago

I guess you don't really want to know that the Ruby Metaclasses page fails the W3C html validator with 56 errors either? validator.w3.org

Peter Says:

11 months ago

Not really.

UPDATE:

Ok, fixed them all and put the W3C validation thing back. Can't have all the blind people complaining about images with missing alt attributes.

Peter

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