Why cant i see my links in netscape - but can in IE , please help

C

Carl Cross

I have a site

http://www.allaboutpets.org.uk/dogindex1.html

Now on all of the cat doh horse index pages when using netscape
browser ( all versions ) the download links in the left column do not
work.

If you try using PC Explorer ( all versions 4 and above ) the links
work fine.

I have no idea why Netscape cannot see these links.

My guess would relate to the css rules which define the placement of
layers such as;

..indexColumnOne {
position: absolute;
width: 345px;
left: 15px;
top: 140px;
z-index: 1;
visibility: visible;

}
..indexColumnTwo {
position: absolute;
width: 345px;
left: 385px;
top: 140px;
z-index: 2;
visibility: visible;

It is the links in .indexColumnOne that are not focussed.

Can anyone please help me with this one

Many thanks

carl Cross blue cross animal charity
 
J

John McGaw

Carl Cross said:
I have a site

http://www.allaboutpets.org.uk/dogindex1.html

Now on all of the cat doh horse index pages when using netscape
browser ( all versions ) the download links in the left column do not
work.
snip...

You really need to validate your HTML before you start looking for subtle
(and not so subtle) errors. I did a quick check with ARV and it found 25
things it didn't like and even a minor error could cause the sort of
problems you are seeing. Freebies: "centre" vs. "center" as an align
property and what appear to be many fewer <SPAN> than </SPAN> elements
indicating nesting problems. A quick pass with HTML Tidy seemed to fix all
of these.
 
S

SpaceGirl

John McGaw said:
snip...

You really need to validate your HTML before you start looking for subtle
(and not so subtle) errors. I did a quick check with ARV and it found 25
things it didn't like and even a minor error could cause the sort of
problems you are seeing. Freebies: "centre" vs. "center" as an align
property and what appear to be many fewer <SPAN> than </SPAN> elements
indicating nesting problems. A quick pass with HTML Tidy seemed to fix all
of these.


What's ARV?

I use http://validator.w3.org/ usually.

m.
 
R

rf

SpaceGirl said:
What's ARV?

I use http://validator.w3.org/ usually.

m.

[unsnipped on purpose]

Spacegirl, just a thought: have you ever considered selectivly snipping the
stuff you are NOT replying to, so as to make it easy to figure out what you
ARE replying to? I seem to recall scratching you a while ago about this :)

I had to read this entire post several times before I found the word ARV in
the post you were replying to.

Something like this, perhaps...

[copy/past/snip]
What's ARV?

It's an Automatic Rewriting Validator, of course :)

Cheers
Richard.
 
J

John McGaw

SpaceGirl said:
meh... sounds like a dangerous concept to me :)
ARV was shorthand for A Real Validator which is Liam Quinn's HTML validator
which I find to be a lot more convenient that the online validation
services. Sorry about the confusion but I thought that the acronym was in
common use but... http://arealvalidator.com/
 
H

Hywel

John McGaw said:
ARV was shorthand for A Real Validator which is Liam Quinn's HTML validator
which I find to be a lot more convenient that the online validation
services. Sorry about the confusion but I thought that the acronym was in
common use but... http://arealvalidator.com/

Presumably it can't handle PHP, or any other CGI for that matter?
 
J

John McGaw

Hywel said:
Presumably it can't handle PHP, or any other CGI for that matter?

Don't know -- I haven't run any PHP through it. But it is supposed to do
exactly the same as W3C's online validator. Have you tried it with either
PHP or some other CGI? If you haven't and if you really want to know I'm
sure that you can contact Quinn through the website. I've only run
Javascript through it and that worked fine.
 
R

rf

Mark Parnell said:
Meaning that when it finds errors in your code, it automatically fixes
them for you? Cool.

Yep. Couple it with brucies pointy stick edior and we have a formidible
design environment.

Cheers
Richard.
 
H

Hywel

John McGaw said:
Don't know -- I haven't run any PHP through it. But it is supposed to do
exactly the same as W3C's online validator.

The W3C validator gets pages over HTTP, though, so any PHP has already
been parsed. If ARV is reading local files, it won't work.
Have you tried it with either
PHP or some other CGI?

ARV - no? W3C - yup.
 
S

SpaceGirl

Neal said:
Sounds a little like IE... :(

More like FrontPage. "Oooh look at this perfectly valid code you just
wrote... now let me rearrange that a bit... and place some CSS here....
there we go..."
 
S

SpaceGirl

Hywel said:
The W3C validator gets pages over HTTP, though, so any PHP has already
been parsed. If ARV is reading local files, it won't work.


ARV - no? W3C - yup.

I tried ARV... it's pretty useless :/ It must be 5 years since I last
worked on a static website... ARV only works on static X/HTML, and I was
hard pushed to find any page that I could get it to validate - it tripped up
on all the ASP and PHP markup in the source. I guess it might be fine for
"live" sites, but you cant even get it to open an URL! Useless, pointless.
 

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