Comments on: Microsoft and Immigration

By: Yusuf Smith

Yusuf Smith — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:58:34 +0000

The same happens in Camino (another Mozilla browser), but not in Safari (KHTML based rendering).

By: Yusuf Smith

Yusuf Smith — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:57:01 +0000

The same happens in Camino (another Mozilla browser), but not in Safari (KHTML based rendering).

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:29:18 +0000

Yep, the missing close tag on hurts. However, if it had a doctype, Firefox would work properly, like IE and Safari and Opera do. Running the doc through the W3C.org validator comes up with over 200 errors. Sloppy coding, sloppy testing.

By: Reinder

Reinder — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:59:59 +0000

If Opera didn’t handle it well anyway, you’d be able to edit the cached source code, refresh display and submit the corrected form. Handy, that.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:33:55 +0000

Opera seems to handle it satisfactorily.

By: free patriot

free patriot — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:25:24 +0000

Bill Gates did it

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:07:46 +0000

THere is a Firefox site which records external sites which have problems when run with Firefox. If you’d like the link to report this problem, pls. let me know.

By: Brian Weatherson

Brian Weatherson — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:49:46 +0000

Thanks wtfwjd. That looks like it was the problem. I think the headline should probably be something about how untrained Brian is at HTML, but I’ll leave it as is :)

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:47:00 +0000

I had the same problem a few weeks ago when filling in my own form. The solution is to opt for the version of the form that you don’t fill in on-line – they have an intelligent PDF that you can download, fill in, and then print out.

By: wtfwjd?

wtfwjd? — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:26:21 +0000

Oops…the tag in question in my comments above is the tag—silly me, I used angle brackets in my comments and so the tags were omitted from my post.

By: Headline hunter

Headline hunter — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:25:52 +0000

So the headline should be “Immigration and buggy HTML” or “Microsoft helping me get my work done”?

By: wtfwjd?

wtfwjd? — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:22:16 +0000

The other radio button fields have the tag closed. The field in question, field 35, has a tag but no end tag. MS may handle this error more elegantly than Firefox does. (I’m also using Firefox and get the same error.)