rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2009-03-31 12:21 pm

HTML question

- Freaky control characters showing up in Firefox on Macs.
- They show up on nothing else -- not in Safari, not on PCs.

What the hell should I be looking for that will make this stop?
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[personal profile] marcmagus 2009-03-31 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Bare ampersands could *easily* be causing problems with some browsers. They're not allowed by the specification, but many browsers will make a guess and render them anyway. (I think often weird HTML problems that only occur on some browsers are because there's something wrong with your source and the popular browsers are made to make guesses in those situations so the page will render, even though it's wrong.)

If you ever want me to test things in FF, links, and/or lynx on Linux, I'd be happy to, btw.