FireFox 3.6 losing text.

#1 (**permalink**) 02-07-2010, 10:46 PM

The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
above the other.

When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.

However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
the second one disappears???

This has really got me stumped.

Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

TIA

#2 (**permalink**) 02-07-2010, 11:07 PM

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 15:46:50 -0800 (PST), Captain Paralytic
<paul_lautman@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
>above the other.
>
>When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
>However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
>http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
>the second one disappears???
>
>This has really got me stumped.
>
>Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
>
>TIA

With SeaMonkey 2.0.2 i see both phone numbers on the two pages.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-07-2010, 11:24 PM

In article
<a5cf3c9a-5ed9-4816-82db-390e27183ef8@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.co
m>,
Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
>

I am not seeing this trouble. Anyway, how about a proper doctype
etc...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<title>weird</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
div {margin-bottom: 2em;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div> a0888 1111111<br>0888 2222222</div>
<div>0888 1111111<br>0888 2222222</div>
</body>
</html>

--
dorayme

#4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 12:04 AM

On 8/02/2010 12:46 pm, Captain Paralytic wrote:
> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

Do you have Skype installed? Sometimes the Skype Firefox add-on does
strange and unexpected things to phone numbers.

If not, have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode to see if it is one
of your other Add-ons that is causing the problem?

#5 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 12:28 AM

Captain Paralytic wrote:
> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

No problem here, must be something specific to your machine...

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

#6 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 02:07 AM

On 07 Feb 2010, Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

I see both numbers in both pages with ff 3.6 fine. You're not on a
win95 box, are you?

--
Neredbojias
http://www.neredbojias.org/
http://www.neredbojias.net/

#7 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 02:16 AM

On 8/02/2010 12:46 pm, Captain Paralytic wrote:
> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> TIA

Do you have Skype installed? Sometimes the Skype Firefox add-on does
strange and unexpected things to phone numbers.

If not, have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode to see if it is one
of your other Add-ons that is causing the problem?

#8 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 09:22 AM

On 8 Feb, 01:04, Nik Coughlin <nrkn....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/02/2010 12:46 pm, Captain Paralytic wrote:
>
> > The pagehttp://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.htmlhas 2 phone numbers, one
> > above the other.
>
> > When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> > However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> >http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> > the second one disappears???
>
> > This has really got me stumped.
>
> > Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> Do you have Skype installed? Sometimes the Skype Firefox add-on does
> strange and unexpected things to phone numbers.
>
> If not, have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode to see if it is one
> of your other Add-ons that is causing the problem?

I'll try that certainly.

#9 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 08:40 PM

Captain Paralytic wrote:
> The page http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36.html has 2 phone numbers, one
> above the other.
>
> When I look at it in FF 3.6, only the second one shows.
>
> However, if I prefix the first number with a alpha character (see
> http://uk.osgeurope.com/ff36a.html), then the first number shows, but
> the second one disappears???
>
> This has really got me stumped.
>
> Anyone got any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> TIA

I have ff 3.6, and it looks ok here.

The one odd thing I notice about this web page
is the way some of the tags are enclosed:

<body>
0888 1111111
<br />
0888 2222222
</body>

note specifically the line "<br />".

in article
http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19816
this is listed as one form of the ending tag for
the <br> tag.

But if this is so, then that page
is *ending* a tag that was never started.

Or is this a new way to specify starting and ending
tags in the same tag??

--
Big Bird

#10 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 09:41 PM

In article <cJKdnV6ESptcGe3WnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@citizens.coop> , buzzard <user@domain.invalid.net> wrote:

>
>The one odd thing I notice about this web page
>is the way some of the tags are enclosed:
>
> <body>
> 0888 1111111
> <br />
> 0888 2222222
> </body>

Nothing odd about that.
>
>note specifically the line "<br />".
>
>in article
>http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19816
>this is listed as one form of the ending tag for
>the <br> tag.

That article is incorrect.

In HTML, the <br> tag stands alone; it has no closing tag. In XHTML, all tags
must be closed, and the proper form is <br />.

The authors make exactly the same mistake WRT <hr>, <area>, <input>, and
<img>.
>
>But if this is so, then that page
>is *ending* a tag that was never started.

<br /> both opens and closes the tag.
>
>Or is this a new way to specify starting and ending
>tags in the same tag??

It's the XHTML way.