Firefox users rejoice!

by Hadley Stern Oct 25, 2004

Apple Matters is proud to say we found the snippet of CSS code that stumped the Mozilla rendering engine. I’m not sure if its a matter of bad CSS (no other browser had a problem with it) or a bug in the Mozilla rendering engine. The culprit could be found in one of the main divs on Apple Matters that contained other nested divs. Here is the nefarious code:

height: %100

Yup, it appears that choked Mozilla. Now, if only Mac users read Apple Matters I’d say who cares! After all Safari is far and away a better browser. However, since 20 percent of my readers use Windows I respect their decision to avoid Microsoft Internet Explorer. Plus, who am I to say Safari is the best browser? That’s just my opinion.

Once again, I apologize for the delay, Firefox users! Now you can enjoy Apple Matters too!

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  • hooray. seriously. hooray

    Heh, as an alternative to fixing that bug you could have just changed the background to a light solid color instead of the stripes that it is now.

    may have still been broken, but it would have been readable

    piecetogether had this to say on Oct 26, 2004 Posts: 13

  • There is probably a few different fixes - I posted in a different article that the following would fix the rendering problem (edited to clarify my original post:
    ————-
    The background bug we’re seeing with Gecko is due to declaring the ID “weblog” as a class.

    here are the relevant DIVs:

    <div id=“weblog”>
    <div class=“weblog”>

    “weblog” is an ID in your stylesheet, not a class.

    If you copy the attributes of #weblog and make it .weblog then you’ll be fine, and you just have to make one fix to the CSS and not touch your article template.
    ————-

    cheers,
    -N

    Nathan had this to say on Oct 26, 2004 Posts: 219

  • oh yeah, a quick flame… Safari may be a better browser than Firefox, but Camino is a better browser than Safari. =)

    Nathan had this to say on Oct 26, 2004 Posts: 219

  • Firefox on Windows, okay.  Firefox on OS X, bleh.

    sjk had this to say on Oct 29, 2004 Posts: 112
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