You can click on that “thing” to see what I can currently see in my browser when I try to use a public service website – namely the Irish Companies’ office (CRO)
It was working fine not so long ago, but an “upgrade” has broken it completely.
Seemingly it still works in Internet Explorer, but I don’t use Internet Explorer and have no intention of being forced to use it when I should have access to site like this.
How hard would it have been to write compliant HTML and test the site?
So who is to blame?
Was it a $random CRO employee or the website developers?
Answers on a postcard please ……….
Michele Neylon :: Pensieri
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suprised it doesn’t work right for you cause it uses tables for layout which normaly displays right, but saying that it could be a missing closing tag which IE is smart enough to render the content properly while other browsers gives you “exactly what it says on the tin”.
oxymoron alert:
“IE is smart enough”
Clear this out for me Stewart.
Are you calling me a “moron”?
No not at all! Just saying that “Internet Explorer” and “smart” are rarely seen in the same sentence… I hate that bloody browser, especially as I have to have about 4 different versions of it on my PC.
Hey man, you had me going there for a second.
What I meant by that is that websites seems to always or almost always display properly in IE, but when checked on other browsers they break-up terible.
But hey, you know that already.
After all I have nothing against IE whatsoever, I actualy prefer it and at the end of the day whatever you are used to it’s your favourites.
Why should I use something else (unless for checking layouts and design), when 79.49% of my visitors are using IE, then FF, Safari, Opera, etc…
Now that shouldn’t say that CRO shoudn’t make it usable for other browsers as well.
Louie: an “oxymoron” is another way of saying “contradiction”
Anyhow ….
CRO is a state body, so it should be accessible to everyone. I currently have issues using it.
This makes me unhappy.
(and most of the visitors to this site use browsers other than IE 🙂 )
looking fine to me in Firefox, in Fedora 7.
but then – yes, it is far from valid. I thought the designers were brave for using teh XHTML1 Strict doctype, then ran the whole thing through the W3’s validator. 274 errors.
One of the first really says it all…
designed with MS Visual Studio .Net ?
real designers use DreamWeaver or vim.
Kae
It’s displaying properly for me on FF on Ubuntu now. If I boot into windows I’ll be able to check if it works on that now … Maybe they fixed it?
M
Actually – scratch that – none of the menus are displaying properly!
designed with MS Visual Studio .Net ?
really i am not able to take that
“Dreamweaver or vim”. What, nothing in between? 🙂
Louie – on encountering a word you haven’t come across before, look it up rather than assuming that someone is trying to insult you.
As for IE’s habit of attempting to fix broken HTML, yes, it’s foolishness. All browsers do it to a certain extent, in different ways, with the result, generally, that a carelessly-written HTML document will work on the designer’s browser, but nothing else. Relying on a browser’s ability to fix broken HTML is very, very silly. The standard exists for a reason.
And yes, this is, of course, utterly unacceptable for a public body. Naughty, naughty CRO.
hey take it easy on me. I was meant to come back and appologise but i got caught in something else…, actually I appologise now – I am sorry for jumping to conclusion so fast Stewart – My bad, I should have checked but didn’t.