linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Need some help with some stuff that involves Firefox 3.5, PcLinuxOS LXDE 2009.4 and Yahoo

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:40:01PM -0800, Joan Leach wrote:
> Happy Holidays,
>
> What causes webpages to look weird in Firefox, but look OK in Opera? My friend designed his MyYahoo webpage and now it looks weird in Firefox. Plus www.distrowatch.com looks a bit different, too.
>
Surprising--usually, it's the other way around.
Opera adheres more strictly to standards, I believe.

> Should I compare the source from Firefox and Yahoo of the same webpage to see what's different?

Not sure what yahoo mypages uses--hrrm, if they're using IE, didn't MS
decide to make it more standards-complient? If that's the case, it
would make sense. However, my experience, as mentioned, has been the
opposite, seems that usually people worry about IE and firefox when
designing pages.

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