Web Site Anomaly

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Task breakdown pages are not rendering properly with Firefox 2.0.0.11 on either Windows or OS X.

Specifically, FF isn't rendering the proper color for the Time Reported/Deadline column entries. FF does render it correctly for the other projects I tested for this on though.

Curiously, IE 6 SP1 renders the page correctly on the Winboxes I tested. However, I didn't pursue it any further on OS X, since FF 2 is the most current browser I have available for the Mac platform I have.

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Brian Silvers
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Web Site Anomaly

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Task breakdown pages are not rendering properly with Firefox 2.0.0.11 on either Windows or OS X.

Specifically, FF isn't rendering the proper color for the Time Reported/Deadline column entries. FF does render it correctly for the other projects I tested for this on though.

Curiously, IE 6 SP1 renders the page correctly on the Winboxes I tested. However, I didn't pursue it any further on OS X, since FF 2 is the most current browser I have available for the Mac platform I have.

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I'll test later... About out the door to school right now...

Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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Hi! This is a known bug

Hi!

This is a known bug with the server side code. Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant. IExplorer and earlier Versions of Firefox are a bit sloppy so they will still render as intended, but the newest Firefox versions are stricter and refusing to render the ill-defined color codes.

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RE: Actually the HTML

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Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant.


Some? I'd challenge you to find a valid page on Einstein@Home :)

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RE: Hi! This is a known

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Hi!

This is a known bug with the server side code. Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant. IExplorer and earlier Versions of Firefox are a bit sloppy so they will still render as intended, but the newest Firefox versions are stricter and refusing to render the ill-defined color codes.

CU
Bikeman

Hmmmm...

Given that, another curious aspect is SAH (newer sever side build, IIRC) and Leiden (older) render correctly while EAH doesn't. As far as strict compliance goes, I don't think anyone on the planet is. :-)

In any event, not much of an issue, but it freaked me out when I took a quick look this morning and thought all my current tasks had crapped out at first glance! Not a great way to start the day before the first cup of coffee! ;-)

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RE: RE: Actually the HTML

Message 78391 in response to message 78389

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Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant.

Some? I'd challenge you to find a valid page on Einstein@Home :)

Including the page you linked to (try the direct input validation method on it)! :-D

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I hope the web pages don't

I hope the web pages don't change too much, I read them with a scripted program. It doesn't take much of a change to throw off my script.

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RE: I hope the web pages

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I hope the web pages don't change too much, I read them with a scripted program. It doesn't take much of a change to throw off my script.


What pages? There are a lot with XML versions you should be using instead.

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RE: RE: Hi! This is a

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Quote:

Hi!

This is a known bug with the server side code. Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant. IExplorer and earlier Versions of Firefox are a bit sloppy so they will still render as intended, but the newest Firefox versions are stricter and refusing to render the ill-defined color codes.

CU
Bikeman

Hmmmm...

Given that, another curious aspect is SAH (newer sever side build, IIRC) and Leiden (older) render correctly while EAH doesn't. As far as strict compliance goes, I don't think anyone on the planet is. :-)

SETI has the # symbol in front of the color code, while Einstein does not. The HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype requires the #. All that needs to be done is for Einstein's HTML generation to include a # in front of the color code...

Of course, I'm reading that is discouraged. Use styles instead...

...but just adding the # sign will make it work for that doctype...

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RE: RE: RE: Actually

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Actually the HTML generated by some BOINC pages is not 100% HTML Standards-compliant.

Some? I'd challenge you to find a valid page on Einstein@Home :)

Including the page you linked to (try the direct input validation method on it)! :-D

Alinator

Not sure what you tried, but it shows valid XHTML 1.0 Strict for me... I guess either you missed something on copying the source or the parser had a burp...

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RE: Not sure what you

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Not sure what you tried, but it shows valid XHTML 1.0 Strict for me... I guess either you missed something on copying the source or the parser had a burp...


Validating a workunit.php page says it's invalid.

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