Re: another page layout error with 9.52

[Ed Jay <edMbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:

>Op Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:18:27 +0200 schreef Ed Jay <edMbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> hansa wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.digitalstreet.nl/index.php?cPath=438_440&osCsid=fcl4gog77d5nfc4rjqco11ihb5
>>> Mac OS X 10.5.4
>>>
>>> Menu is drawn under the content instead of in the sidebar.
>>>
>>> Safari has no problem here.
>>>
>> 540 validation errors! It's a wonder it can be rendered in any browser.
>
>In itself the number of errors doesn't tell much. In this case it  
>indicates some severe misnesting of tags, which is probaly not what caused  
>the problem, though it does tell something about the technical quality of  
>the page... The page also uses nested tables with 100% width cells, and  
>then uses 100% wide images for spacers and the gray lines between items,  
>and then uses NOBR and BR elements and NOWRAP attributes to force  
>linebreaks at specific places. Opera interprets this conflicting mess  
>differently than other browsers. It could be done much simpler and more  
>robust with a simple table or list and a few lines of CSS.

I agree the numbers themselves may not mean much, except to me the magnitude
suggested a probably broken page that was so far gone that it didn't warrant
my taking the time to evaluate. Your interest in the matter is much greater
than mine, and you did a splendid job of chasing down the problem. I was
merely trying to point out that it most likely wasn't Opera's fault for the
OP's issue.

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